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==Source==
*   Ştefan Ţălu, Slawomir Kulesza, Miroslaw Bramowicz, Adam M. Pringle, Joshua M. Pearce, M. Marikkannan, V. Vishnukanthang, J. Mayandi. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2018.03.005 Micromorphology analysis of sputtered indium tin oxide fabricated with variable ambient combinations]. ''Materials Express''. 220 (2018), 169–171. doi:10.1016/j.matlet.2018.03.005 [https://www.academia.edu/36214749/Micromorphology_analysis_of_sputtered_indium_tin_oxide_fabricated_with_variable_ambient_combinations open access preprint]

==Highlights==

* Indium-tin oxide (ITO) thin films fabricated by DC magnetron sputtering method.
* ITO films prepared under different mixed sputtering ambient.
* Three-dimensional (3-D) micromorphology analysis of sputtered ITO thin films.
* Fractal geometry analyzed by areal autocorrelation function and pseudo-topothesy K.
* Influence of sputtering ambient on 3-D micromorphology correlated.

==Abstract==
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This study experimentally investigates the fractal nature of the DC magnetron sputtered indium-tin oxide (ITO) fabricated utilizing mixed ambient combinations and post-annealed at 450 °C in air towards solar cell applications. The structural properties of the films were examined by X-ray diffraction technique. In addition, three-dimensional (3-D) surface morphology of the films was analyzed using the areal autocorrelation function and pseudo-topothesy K for the atomic force microscopy images. The fractal nature of films was co-related with respect to electrical and optical properties of ITO films prepared under five different ambient conditions.

==Keywords== 
 Indium-tin oxide thin film; different sputtering ambient; atomic force microscopy; fractal analysis; and surface topography

==See also==
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