In this work new transparent conductive films that had a sandwich structure composed of ITO/metal/ITO multilayer films were prepared by reactive thermal evaporation technique on glass substrates without intentional substrate heating. Ag, Au and Cu thin films have been used as intermediate metal layer. The thickness of each layer in the ITO/metal/ITO films was kept constant at 50nm/10nm/40nm. Th...

Indium tin oxide (ITO) particle coatings are known for high transparency in the visible, good conductive properties and near-infrared absorption. These properties depend on ITO particle's stoichiometric composition, defects and size. Here we present a method to gradually change ITO particle's optical properties by a simple and controlled laser irradiation process. The defined irradiation proces...

Advances in opto-electronics are often led by discovery and development of materials featuring unique properties. Recently, thematerial class of transparent conductive oxides (TCO) has attracted attention for active photonic devices on-chip. In particular, indium tin oxide (ITO) is found to have refractive index changes on the order of unity. This property makes it possible to achieve electroop...

An In₂O₃/ITO thin film thermocouple was prepared via screen printing. Glass additives were added to improve the sintering process and to increase the density of the In₂O₃/ITO films. The surface and cross-sectional images indicate that both the grain size and densification of the ITO and In₂O₃ films increased with the increase in annealing time. The thermoelectric voltage of the In₂O₃/ITO thermo...

TiO2 nanoparticle (NP)/ITO nanowire (NW) nanocomposites for use as photoelectrode materials were fabricated to improve the charge collection efficiency in solid state dye sensitized solar cells (ss-DSSCs). The average current density for ss-DSSCs containing TiO2 NP/ITO NW arrays was 7.2 mA cm(-2) that was 98% higher than that for the conventional TiO2 NP ss-DSSCs. The intensity modulated photoc...

Information technology outsourcing (ITO) research as a genre is presently in a relatively youthful state since it began last decade. As yet, there is no consistently adopted definition of what ITO is and little agreement over what forms it takes. This paper takes the concept of ITO configuration, the structural taxonomy of outsourcing arrangements, as a lens to examine major ITO contracts in se...

We designed and fabricated guided-mode resonance (GMR) gratings on indium-tin-oxide (ITO) thin film to generate a significantly enhanced local electric field for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy. Ag nanoparticles (NPs) were self-assembled onto the surface of the grating, which can provide a large amount of "hot-spots" for SERS sensing. The ITO gratings also exhibit excellen...

We demonstrated enhanced surface plasmon resonance (SPR) detection by incorporating an indium tin oxide (ITO) layer on a thin gold film. Porous ITO layers were fabricated by e-beam evaporation and slanted deposition at room temperature and the ITO structure was optimized in terms of the surface roughness and the SPR curve characteristics. In sensing experiments, the results obtained by ethanol–...

The use of indium compounds in the electronics and semiconductor industry has risen sharply from the 1990s, and indium demand increased to a record 335 tons in 2000 in Japan, which was about 5 times that in 1990. Indium-tin oxide (ITO) is a sintered alloy containing a large portion of indium oxide and a small portion of tin oxide, and is used in the making of thin-film transistor liquid crystal...

The interplay between internal and external contextual factors and pricing model choice in IT outsourcing (ITO) contracts is still an under-researched area in the ITO literature. However, as past and current examples of outsourcing failures indicate, an informed selection of an adequate pricing model indeed plays a crucial, if not decisive role to ensure a successful deal outcome and to mitigat...