Author(s)

Bhavana Godbole, Nitu Badera, Shyambihari Shrivastava, Deepti Jain, Vganesan Ganesan

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Transparent Zinc Oxide (ZnO) thin films having different thickness are prepared by using spray pyrolysis technique. Structural and morphological behavior has been studied by using atomic force microscopy and x-ray diffraction. The scaling behavior obtained by using height-height correlation method shows that, films with different thickness are developed under non-equilibrium condition behaves as self-affine surfaces. With the increase in thickness, the grain size as well as activation energy have found to be decreased.

Nano-Crystalline Materials, Thin Film, Atomic Force Microscope, Structure and Morphology, Thickness

B. Godbole, N. Badera, S. Shrivastava, D. Jain and V. Ganesan, "Growth Mechanism of Zno Films Deposited by Spray Pyrolysis Technique," Materials Sciences and Applications, Vol. 2 No. 6, 2011, pp. 643-648. doi: 10.4236/msa.2011.26088.