Influence of Doping Concentration on Dielectric, Optical, and Morphological Properties of PMMA Thin Films.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 605673, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2012/605673 Research Article Influence of Doping Concentration on Dielectric, Optical, and Morphological Properties of PMMA Thin Films Lyly Nyl Ismail, Habibah Zulkefle, Sukreen Hana Herman, and Mohamad Rusop Mahmood NANO-ElecTronic Centre, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Malaysia Correspondence should be addressed to Lyly Nyl Ismail, lyly2909@ Received 20 August 2011; Revised 14 November 2011; Accepted 14 November 2011 Academic Editor: V. P. S. Awana Copyright © 2012 Lyly Nyl Ismail et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PMMA thin films were deposited by sol gel spin coating method on ITO substrates. Toluene was used as the solvent to dissolve the PMMA powder. The PMMA concentration was varied from 30 ∼ 120 mg. The dielectric properties were measured at frequency of 0 ∼ 100 kHz. The dielectric permittivity was in the range of 7.3 to 7.5 which decreased as the PMMA concentration increased. The dielectric loss is in the range of 0.01 ∼ – 0.01. All samples show dielectric characteristics which have dielectric loss is less than 0.05. The optical properties for thin films were measured at room temperature across 200 ∼ 1000 nm wavelength region. All samples are highly transparent. The energy band gaps are in the range of 3.6 eV to 3.9 eV when the PMMA concentration increased. The morphologies of the samples show that all samples are uniform and the surface roughness increased as the concentration increased. From this study, it is known tha