Photoinduced Reversible Conductivity and Photoconductivity Changes in Transparent Amorphous and Micro-Crystalline In2O3-X Films
1996
The dark conductivity σ of poorly conducting In2O3-x films can be enhanced by orders of magnitude by blue or UV light exposure at any temperature between 4.2K and 300K. The resulting high σ state of amorphous films reverts back to its original low σ state upon heating to 400K in an inert gas and can be repeated many times. In crystalline films the high σ state is stable to higher temperatures where annealing leads to some outdiffusion of oxygen and hence to a conductivity increase which can only be reversed by external re-oxidation. The photoinduced increase in dark conductivity is accompanied by an increase in photoconductivity at hv = 0.6 or 2eV by a factor of 107 at 4.2K.
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