Production of metal doped magnesium oxide thin films and their application in circuit components

Technological advances and nanoscience have played an important role both in promoting the invention of a new phenomenon, industrial revolutions, and in developing the economy for the 21st century. Recently, transition metal oxides have attracted the attention of researchers due to their unique technological properties. Among all transition metal oxides, such as iron oxide and zinc oxide nanostructures, Magnesium oxide (MgO) films have attracted wide attention due to their enormous potential applications in various fields of science and technology, including optics, optoelectronics, biosensors, gas sensing, catalysis, converters and capacitors. Metal oxides, with their intriguing and interesting structures, properties and different phenomena, are among the materials that have recently attracted attention in technology and science fields and applications. Many metal oxides are used in many fields such as smart glasses, gas sensors, electrochromics and many others. In order to find a better solution to the properties of Magnesium oxide (MgO) films obtained by spray pyrolysis technique, they were grown on glass or inorganic semiconductor (Silicon) layer. Optimal conditions were investigated to obtain the best thin film by sputtering technique using different parameters. After forming thin films on the Silicon semiconductor to form contacts by evaporation by physical evaporation method (PVD), the bright surface of the thin films was coated with aluminum conductor and examined. The electrical and interfacial properties of an Al/MgO/p-Si MIS Schottky diode were analyzed by current-voltage (I-V) characteristics. In addition, the structural, surface, optical and electrical properties of MgO thin film formed on glass were also investigated by X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and UV-Visible Spectroscopy, respectively.