US 7,476,343 B2
Sintered body target for transparent conductive film fabrication, transparent conductive film fabricated by using the same, and transparent conductive base material comprising this conductive film formed thereon
Tokuyuki Nakayama, Ichikawa (Japan); and Yoshiyuki Abe, Ichikawa (Japan)
Assigned to Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jan. 18, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/624,309.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-048701 (JP), filed on Feb. 24, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0200100 A1, Aug. 30, 2007
Int. Cl. H01B 1/08 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 252—518.1 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sintered body target for transparent conductive film fabrication wherein the target is chiefly composed of Ga. In. and O: has a Ga content ranging from 49.1 at. % to 65 at. % with respect to all metallic atoms; is chiefly constructed from GaInO3 phase of a β-Ga2O3-type structure and in In2O3 phase of a bixbyite-type structure; provides an X-ray diffraction peak intensity ratio defined by the following equation that is 45% or less; and has a density of 5.8g/cm3 or more:
In2O3 phase (400)/β-GaInO3 phase (111) ×100[%].