LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES WITH A ZINC OXIDE THIN FILM STRUCTURE

摘要

The present invention relates to a sol-gel deposition/heat treatment process, which consistently produces polycrystalline direct bandgap semiconductor, e.g. ZnO, thin films exhibiting a photo luminescent (PL) spectrum at room temperature that is dominated by a single peak, e.g. in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, in which the PL intensity of the bandgap emission is more than approximately 40 times greater than any deep-level defect emission peak or band. The present invention incorporates such direct bandgap semiconductor, e.g. ZnO, polycrystalline thin films produced by the method of the present invention into electro- luminescent devices that exhibit similarly high ratios of bandgap/deep-level defect emission intensity.