Optical properties of transparent and heat reflecting ZnO:Al films made by reactive sputtering

Abstract
Heavily doped ZnO:Al films were made by dual-target reactive magnetron sputtering. Spectrophotometry in the 0.3–50 μm range proved that the films were suitable for energy-efficient windows. The optical data could be reconciled with a theory involving a free-electron gas damped by ionized impurity scattering.