The Optical and Crystallite Characterization of Bilayer TiO2 Films Coated on Different ITO layers

Nermin Kutlu; Halil Oturak

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The Optical and Crystallite Characterization of Bilayer TiO₂ Films Coated on Different ITO layers

Nermin Kutlu and Halil Oturak

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Abstract

Titanium dioxide(TiO₂) is a well-known material which is non-toxic with efficient photoactivity, high stability, low-cost and corrosion-resistant. Up to today’s technology, TiO₂ films are coated for various applications in the scientific area. In this study, bilayer TiO₂ films were coated on indium tin oxide(ITO) layers that have different characteristic properties. The devices designed as homemade of Direct Current Magnetron Sputtering (DCMS) and Spray Pyrolysis Deposition (SPD) coating methods were used to coat the first and second layers of bilayer TiO₂ films, respectively. The optical and crystalline characterizations of bilayer TiO₂ films were analyzed by UV-VIS spectroscopy and XRD techniques. The XPS spectrum showed that O₂ molecules simply oxidize from Ti³⁺ to Ti⁴⁺ after SPD coating method. The characterization results of TiO₂ films showed change in optical band gap value and crystalline structure of TiO₂ bilayer.

Keywords: bilayer TiO2 (87.16.D); crystalline (61.66.Dk); optical (78.20.Ci); photoanodes; spectroscopy (07.57. c)

1 Introduction

Indium tin oxide (ITO) is known as transparent conducting material due to its wide optic band gap and numerous charge carriers in its conduction band. It is commonly used in application fields such as thermal collectors, mirrors, gas sensors, photodetectors, solar cells, OLEDs and liquid crystal displays. However, Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) is a semiconductor material which has wide optic band gap, non-toxic, low-cost, efficient photoactivity, high stability, corrosion-resistance and transmittance in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum [1, 2, 3]. TiO₂ films should have properties required in application fields such as the media layer for transferring of electrons in the DSSCs, the photo-catalysts for H₂ production, the photoresponse layer of UV detector, the hole blocking, hole transporter or emissive layer of OLEDs, the gas sensing layer of gas sensors, the UV absorbing nanoparticles of UV protection fabrics, for the reduction of water pollutions, in the field of biofuel production, electrodes in Li-ion batteries etc. [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]. According to results reported for these applications, the optical and crystal properties of TiO₂ to be used in application fields are too important to gain efficiency in these fields.

TiO₂ has three crystallite types which are brookite, anatase and rutile. Titanium has oxidation states of +2, +3 and +4 such as Ti²⁺, Ti³⁺ and Ti⁴⁺. Out of these, Ti³⁺ has surface defects (TSD) in anatase form enhance photocatalytic effect by extending of its absorption wavelength from UV to visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum [16]. Electron and holes are generated by light adsorbed with TiO₂ in the reaction (1)[17].

(1)TiO2+hv→TiO2(eCB−+hVB+)

(2)Ti4++eCB−→Ti3+

(3)O2+eCB−→O2.−

(4)O2+Ti3+→O2.−+Ti4+

When the photogenerated electrons reach to TiO₂ surface, they are captured by Ti⁴⁺ and cause Ti³⁺ as shown in reaction (2) [18]. They can be captured by oxygen molecules adsorbed on the TiO₂ surface and superoxide anions form as reaction (3) [19] and so Ti³⁺ formation can be prevented. Simultaneously, O₂ molecules simplify oxidation from Ti³⁺ to Ti⁴⁺ reaction (4) [20] therefore, Ti⁴⁺ ions are formed instead of Ti³⁺ ions at the TiO₂ surface [21].

DCM sputtering is physical depositing method that is used by changing depositing conditions such as sputtering power, sputtering pressure, gases, gas flow, gas ratio, deposition rate and temperature etc. Stamate et al. introduced TiO₂ films with different optic band gap energy (E_OBG) in different DCM sputtering conditions [22]. Singh and Kaur showed that E_OBG value of TiO₂ films coated by DCMS decreased with increasing sputtering power (W) from 50 W to 200 W. Moreover, they clarifies that while crystallite size (nm) and film thickness (nm) increase with increasing sputtering power, transmittance of TiO₂ films decreases [23].

Spray Pyrolysis Deposition (SPD) method is commonly used for obtaining the porous TiO₂(p-TiO₂). There are some external factors such as post-annealing, temperature of hot plate during coating and solution [24] that affect properties of TiO₂ films such as E_OBG, surface structure, crystallite size, crystallite structure etc. [25, 26, 27].

In this study, bilayer TiO₂ films were coated in the same DCMS and SPD conditions on ITO layers with different E_OBG and crystal structure. The optical and crystallite characterizations of bilayer TiO₂ films were analyzed by UV-VIS spectroscopy and XRD devices. The aim of this study is to show that ITO layers with different properties affect properties of bilayer TiO₂ films.

2 Experimental

2.1 Coating of Bilayer TiO₂ Films

A metallic titanium target the purity of 99.5% with diameter of 60 mm used to obtain the dense layer TiO₂ film. The three chemical materials, which are titanium(IV) isopropoxide Ti(O-iPr)₄, ethanol, acetylacetone was used to coat the p-TiO₂ film. All chemicals were purchased from Sigma–Aldrich and were used as received.

ITO films with different property were used as glass substrates of bilayer TiO₂ films. Disk of TiO₂ were used as sputtering targets to deposit first layer of TiO₂ on ITO surface which was also the first layer of TiO₂-based bilayer photoanode. The sputtering chamber was pumped down to 3×10^-5 mbar and then high purity Ar (4 sccm=4 atm cm³/min) were introduced into vacuum chamber as working ambience by mass flow control system. The deposited process was applied at 3×10^-2 mbar. A constant DC power at 150 W was applied to the target. Substrate temperature was kept 23°C during deposition. Before deposition of all the samples, the surface of target was cleaned by 10 min at a pressure of sputtering. Sputtering time was 1 hour. This was in order to remove the possible contaminations.

SPD method was used to coat the second layer of titania on sputtered titania film which is second layer of TiO₂-based bilayer photoanode. This method allows in obtaining rougher films, with higher surface areas, compared with those obtained by magnetron sputtering, this being a prerequisite in the construction of a Grätzel solar cell. The solution as in the receipt to coat the second layer of titania via SPD method is prepared to be consistant in [1]: titanium(IV) isopropoxide (0.1 mol/L) and acetylacetone in a molar ratio of 1:2 in ethanol [25]. The spraying process was performed in the following after preparing the solution. This second layer of TiO₂ was deposited by spraying an appropriate solution on the samples maintained at 387 K during the spraying procedure. The sprayer was placed at 18 cm in front of a heated substrate holder (inclined at 55° with respect to the horizontal plane). The spraying was performed in the following sequence: 10s spray, 20s break, which was repeated 3 times. A 10 min break was followed by each spray. The obtained films were cooled till the room temperature, together with the heater. The pyrolytic reaction takes place on the substrate, leading to a nano-crystalline metal oxide. The as-deposited thin films were then compacted by placing the samples in the middle of a temperature-controlled furnace. All of the deposited samples were heated at 450˚C for 3 hours to remove their chemical contaminants after their coating process.

2.2 Characterisation of Bilayer TiO₂ Films

The first characterization of TiO₂-based bilayer films was done to determine their thickness by using a surface Tencor Alpha Step 500 profilometer.

UV-VIS characterization was done by using Analytic Jena Speedcord S600 Spectroscopy. Optic band gap energy of thin films was determined by Equation 1 [28].

(5)EOBG=h×cλ=1240eV .nmλ

Absorbance of light is given by Equation 2.

(6)A(λ)=ε(λ)dc

This Equation 2 is called as Lambert-Beer Law [29] .In this Equation 2, A is absorbance; ε is molecular extinction coefficient; d is path length or thickness; c is concentration of the molecule. Increasing d value in Equation 2 due to cause the increasing absorbance is an important parameter.

The crystallite size has been calculated by using Debye-Scherer formula in the Equation 3 [30].

(7)D=0.9λβ1/2cosθ

In this Equation, λ is 1.542 Å that the wavelength of Cu Kα used for diffraction in XRD, β_1/2 is the full width at half maximum and θ is the angle as degree of pattern with the highest intensity.

(8)nλ=2d sinθ

Equation 4 introduces Bragg Law used to determine the structure of TiO₂ crystals [31]. According this Equation 4, the wavelength of the incident X-ray beam is λ; n is an integer and parallel planes of crystal atoms; the distance between atomic layers in a crystal is d; Bragg’s angle is θ. XPS device with mono-chromated Al Kα X-ray (1486.7 eV) was used to determine the composition and electronic state of thin films. The Binding Energy(BE) of thin films is determined by Equation 5.

(9)B.E.=h υ−KE−ϕ

The hν, KE and φ terms in this Equation are the photon energy, kinetic energy and work function [32].

Ethical Approval: The conducted research is not related to either human or animal use.

3 Results

Firstly, difference in method of this study against to traditional coating methods is home-made DCMS and SPD devices used to coat the bilayer TiO₂ samples. The inadequacy in coating process of DCMS device is the vacuum step and the inadequacy in that of SPD device can not homogenously deposit the solution on the materials. XPS spectras given in Figure 1a and Figure 1b are the first characterization result of this study. These spectras clarify the surface compositions and oxidation states of TiO₂-based bilayer photoanodes. As seen in Figure 1a, Ti 2p oxidation state of density(d)-TiO₂ is shown. Owing to the fact that there are both Ti₄₊(TiO₂) and Ti₃₊(Ti₂O₃) chemical states in surface of d-TiO₂ coated by magnetron sputtering, d-TiO₂ surface is nonstoichiometric. Figure 1b gives the information about chemical state of O 1s in the d-TiO₂. When Ti⁴⁺ ions receive electrons, they get convert into trivalent Ti³⁺ ions [18]. On the contrary, as O₂ is adsorbed by TiO₂ surface, Ti³⁺ ions turn to Ti⁴⁺ ions. The BE, given by Equation 5, of Ti-O(530.84 eV) and contaminant layer(531.51 eV) are obtained from Figure 1b. XPS signal values of Ti-O and contaminant layers against BE values are 46.67×10³ counts and 17.16×10³ counts, respectively.

Figure 1

XPS spectras (a) Ti 2p (b) O 1s of as-deposited d-TiO₂.

In the Figure 2a, it was shown the Ti 2p oxidation state on the surface of p-TiO₂ coated on d-TiO₂ by SPD method. The p-TiO₂ film coated on d-TiO₂ has stoichiometric properties because of the appearing XPS signal of only Ti⁴⁺ oxidation state in Figure 2a. The Figure 2b gives the information about chemical state of O 1s in the p-TiO₂. BE of Ti-O(530.90 eV) and contaminant layer(532.19 eV) are calculated from Figure 2b. XPS signal values of Ti-O and contaminant layer are 50.65×10³ counts and 13.62×10³ counts, respectively. According to BE values and XPS signals of Ti-O in Figure 1b and in Figure 2b, XPS O 1s spectras of d-TiO₂ and p-TiO₂ are different. While chemical states of O 1s in the d-TiO₂ and p-TiO₂ are the same, O₂ molecules adsorbed by p-TiO₂ surface are plenty more than that by d-TiO₂ surface. Ti³⁺ ions turn to Ti⁴⁺ ions due to the O₂ molecules adsorbed by TiO₂ surface and thus Ti³⁺ ions are not seen on the p-TiO₂ surface [20,21].Table 1 gives as atomic(at.%) concentration the chemical composition amount of p-TiO₂ film surface. In the Table 1, chemical composition of d-TiO₂ and p-TiO₂ thin film surfaces is given as atomic (at.%) concentration. According to at.% concentrations in the Table 2, SPD method used to deposit the p-TiO₂ layer on layer of d-TiO₂ did not change the chemical composition of d-TiO₂ layer. These bilayer TiO₂ samples are normally three layers together with ITO substrate as first layer. Figure 3a and Figure 3b give crystallite structure of ITO films.

Figure 2

XPS graphs (a) Ti 2p (b) O 1s of as-deposited p-TiO₂.

Table 1

The atomic(at.%) concentrations of d-TiO₂ and p-TiO₂ layers of TiO₂-based bilayer.

d-TiO₂ layer coated by DCMS method				p-TiO₂ layer coated by SPD method
TiO₂	C 1s	O 1s	Ar 2p	TiO₂ C 1s	O 1s	Ar 2p
at.%	1.81	65.90	0.82	at.% 2.61	65.21	1.21

Table 2

Thicknesses of both ITO and d-TiO₂ films coated by DCMS method.

Sample No	ITO coated by DCMS			d-TiO₂ coated by DCMS
	T(˚C)	t(nm)	Gas	T(˚C)	t(nm)	Gas
S1	300	576	Ar+ O₂	300	317	Ar
S2	400	465		400	239
S3	300	700	Ar	300	350	Ar
S4	400	600		400	208

Figure 3

(a) XRD graphs (b) Normalized XRD graphs for patterns of ITO films.

XRD graphs given patterns of ITO films are shown in Figure 3. XRD patterns of ITO crystal structure are 21˚, 30˚, 35˚, 37˚, 45˚ and 49˚ with regard to (211), (222), (400), (411), (431) and (440) from (hkl) planes of ITO, respectively[33]. While crystallite sizes of ITO-1, ITO-2, ITO-3 and ITO-4 are 17.05 nm, 5.61 nm, 24.37 nm and 22.95 nm respectively, the crystallite size of commercial ITO is smaller than them, between 5 and 10 nm. Moreover, it is expected that the thickness of commercial ITO is thinner than the others, around 100 nm. Because the thickness of films increases with increasing crystallite or grain size [34,35]. While ITO-1 and ITO-3 was annealed at 300oC, ITO-2 and ITO-4 was annealed at 400oC. According to crystallite size values determined by Equation 3, it can be said that crystallite size decreases with increased annealing temperature at 400oC. ITO-1 and ITO-3 were deposited via DCMS method in different sputtering gas ambiance. ITO-2 was obtained when the ITO-1 at 300oC was annealed at 400oC, ITO-4 was obtained when the ITO-3 at 300oC was annealed at 400oC. As seen from Figure 3, the peak intensities of ITO patterns increase with the increasing film thickness [36]. Also, this result supports the Bragg Law given by Equation 4 [31]. The more thickness of crystal ITO atoms increases, the more “n” number of ITO crystal atoms increases. This increasing n value increases the peak intensities of ITO patterns.

Figure 4 gives the crystallite structure of bilayer TiO₂ films. XRD graph in the Figure 4a gives patterns of bilayer TiO₂ films with difference thickness. The thickness of ITO layer of S3 and S4 are thicker than that of the others, so peak intensity of XRD pattern of their ITO layers at 35˚ value is much higher that of the others. However, peak of XRD pattern at 25˚ value of anatase(A)-TiO₂ crystallite structure of S1, S2 and S3 is much higher intensity than that of S3 and S4 at 25˚ value. TiO₂ crystallite structure of all samples is not amorphous because they were annealed at 450oC for 1 hour [37,38]. The (hkl) planes of A-TiO₂ in Figure 3 are A(101), A(004), A(200) and A(105) at 25˚, 37˚, 48˚ and 54˚, respectively [39,40].

Figure 4

(a) XRD graphs (b) Normalized XRD graphs for patterns of bilayer TiO₂ films.

To normalise the XRD graph between 0 and 1 intensity values, intensity values in the experimental result were divided in values of normalize due to different thickness of bilayer TiO₂ films [41]. Figure 4b gives normalized XRD graphs drawn to show patterns of bilayer TiO₂ films. According to Figure 4b, while crystal structures of S1, S2 and S5 are much closer to each other, crystal structure of S3 and S4 is much closer to each other. The crystal structures of all samples are difference due to the different crystal structures of ITO layers. The crystallite sizes of anatase form of TiO₂ of S1, S2, S3, S4 and S5 are 22.40 nm, 16.43 nm, 28.98 nm, 24.63 nm and 17.14 nm , respectively. Their thicknesses given in the Table 2 decrease with decreasing crystallite size [34,35].

Each layer of S1, S2, S3, S4 and S5 has different thickness and thus the determining of their thickness is too important. For this reason, their thicknesses should be measured to observe the changes in the optical and criystallite characteristic values. Table 2 represents thicknesses of ITO and TiO₂ films coated by DCMS method. The thickness(t) and temperature(T) of DCMS-ITO and DCMS-TiO₂ films are seen in the Table 2. Thicknesses of ITO layer of S3 and S4 samples are thicker than that of S1 and S2 samples. ITO layer of S5 is commercial and its thickness is around 100 nm. The p-TiO₂ thickness of all samples could not be measured by profilometer device because of the their so rough surface and it is estimated that their thickness are around 1μm to the measured total thickness results. According to Figure 4a below, the p-TiO₂ thickness of S2 is thicker than others. The thickness of ITO layer of S5 is thinner than that of the others because it was coated by commercial device in optimum experimental laboratory conditions.

Figure 5a shows the UV-VIS absorbance spectra of bilayer TiO₂ films with difference thickness. According to Figure 5a, S3 have much more light absorption than the others because it has much thicker in comparison with the ohers. Moreover, this result verifies the Lambert-Beer Law given by Equation 2. The E_OBG values of S1, S2, S3, S4 and S5 determined by Equation 1 from Figure 5a are 2.90 eV, 2.92 eV, 2.79 eV, 2.88 eV and 3.25 eV, respectively. While E_OBG of S3 is the smallest amongst, E_OBG of S5 is the biggest in their among. This difference at E_OBG values of bilayer TiO₂ films causes due to different E_OBG values of ITO layers. E_OBG values of S3 and S4 is smaller than that of S1, S2 and S5 because the ITO and d_TiO₂ layers of S3 and S4 are thicker than that of S1 and S2. While E_OBG values of all samples decrease with the increasing thickness which is due to the enlarging crystallit sizes, their light absorption increases with that [42].

Figure 5

(a) UV-VIS (b) Normalized UV-VIS absorbance spectra of bilayer TiO₂ films.

Normalized UV-VIS absorbance spectra of bilayer TiO₂ films in Figure 5b was drawn due to difference thickness of each of three layer films. The E_OBG values of S1, S2, S3, S4 and S5 obtained from Figure 5b are 2.99 eV, 2.97 eV, 2.88 eV, 2.82 eV and 3.27 eV, respectively. After UV-VIS spectras were normalized, it was seen that E_OBG value of S2 was smaller than that of S1 and E_OBG value of S4 was smaller than that of S3, too. Spray Pyrolysis(SP) layer of S2 is thicker than that of S1 and SP layer of S4 is thicker than that of S3, too. According to Figure 5b, S2 absorbed less light when compared to S1 and S4 absorbed less light in comparison with S3, too. As a result, S2 in comparison with S1 has more light transmittance and S4 has more light transmittance than S3, too. Because p-TiO₂ as SP layers has more light transmittance than d-TiO₂ due to the Ti⁴⁺ ions in p-TiO₂ turning from Ti³⁺ ions in d-TiO₂ revealed with XPS [16, 20,21]. Also, S1 and S2 have much more light absorption than S3 and S4. And thus, it can be based on the Lambert-Beer Law given by Equation 2 that SP layers of S1 and S2 are thicker than that of S3 and S4. When UV-VIS values of all samples were normalized, thicknesses of ITO and d-TiO₂ layers were neglected. For this reason, the effect on light absorption of p-TiO₂ as SP layers was seen more obvious in Figure 5b. Finally, normalized absorbance of S5 and S1 is the same between 525 nm and 750 nm in the visible region because their crystal and optic properties are much close to each other. ITO structure of S2 is similar the commercial ITO structure of S5.

SEM images of top layer of S4 were given with Figure 6a, Figure 6b and Figure 6c. These images explain whether the all samples have a nanoporous (np) or non-porous (non-p) surface structure.

Figure 6

SEM images of bilayer TiO₂ films (a) 1000 KX (b) 300 KX (c) 100 KX.

As seen from all images of Figure 6, bilayer TiO₂ films have not the np surface structure. Their surface structures are nonp-TiO₂ layer like dense (d) layer. The surface of samples crack due to some external factors [43] such as the temperature of hot plate in SPD mechanism when samples were deposited via SPD method and the solution prepared for SPD. As a result, samples have not porously structure.

4 Conclusion

Although TiO₂ films were deposited on different ITO layers in the same DCM sputtering conditions, they have different optic band gap, crystallite size and intensity of XRD patterns of A-TiO₂ due to the used ITO layers with different E_OBG and crystal structure properties. As a result, E_OBG and crystal structure of TiO₂ films have changed based on that of ITO layers. The thickness, optical and crystal structure properties of ITO layers used as conductive layers are important because bilayer TiO₂ films are deposited on ITO layers. According to application field to be used TiO₂ films, ITO layers should be selected taking into consideration the optical, crystal and thickness which are important properties of application field such as E _OBG of TiO₂ used as media layer for transferring of electrons in the DSSCs, crystallite structure of TiO₂ used for H₂ production as photo-catalysts etc. because properties of ITO layers affect the properties of TiO₂ films.

Conflict of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Received: 2018-02-01

Accepted: 2018-09-01

Published Online: 2018-12-21

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bilayer TiO2 (87.16.D); crystalline (61.66.Dk); optical (78.20.Ci); photoanodes; spectroscopy (07.57. c)

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The Optical and Crystallite Characterization of Bilayer TiO2 Films Coated on Different ITO layers

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Abstract

1 Introduction

2 Experimental

2.1 Coating of Bilayer TiO2 Films

2.2 Characterisation of Bilayer TiO2 Films

3 Results

4 Conclusion

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The Optical and Crystallite Characterization of Bilayer TiO₂ Films Coated on Different ITO layers

2.1 Coating of Bilayer TiO₂ Films

2.2 Characterisation of Bilayer TiO₂ Films