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The effect of oxygen (O2) plasma treatment on indium doped tin oxide (ITO) nanorods films prepared by the ion-assisted electron-beam evaporation with the glancing-angle deposition technique (GLAD) were investigated. The ITO nanorods films were plasma treated in oxygen ambient at different O2 flow rates in the range of 20-100 sccm. The physical microstructures have been investigated by grazing-incident X-ray diffraction (GIXRD) and field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM). The electrical and optical properties were characterized by four-point probe measurements and UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometry, respectively. The results showed that all the ITO nanorods films exhibited as bixbite structure. The morphology of as prepared films showed vertically aligned nanocolumnar with diameter of 50-63 nm cause of the shadowing effect and limited adatom diffusion. In addition, the influence of O2 plasma treatment on electrical and anti-reflection with omnidirectional property of ITO nanorods films were systematically evaluated and discussed in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The transparent superhydrophobic coating on optical glass surface were interested self-cleaning technology for develop the windows in outdoor environmental. In this work, the polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) coated on silicon dioxide (SiO2) nanorods were used for study on the performance self-cleaning with antireflection property. The transparent superhydrophobic film with the SiO2 nanorod were prepared on glass slide and silicon wafer substrate by electron beam evaporation with oblique angle deposition technique and subsequent coating with the PTFE by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The effect of SiO2 thickness layer on morphological, optical property and wettability were investigated by field-emission scanning electron microscope, spectrophotometer with angle dependent technique and contact angle measurement. The results indicated that the water contact angle increased with increasing the SiO2 thickness layer. Moreover, the PTFE/SiO2 nanorod films deposited on glass slide substrate exhibits a higher transmission was 93% at normal incident angle. In addition, the omnidirectional anti-reflection characteristic will be discussed in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]