Thin films of transparent conductors are a mainstay in modern technologies. The state of the art accomplishes transparent conductivity through the degenerate doping of wide-bandgap semiconductors, but these are limited in carrier concentration to the solubility limit of the dopants. SrMoO3, a correlated metal complex oxide, is able to maintain higher transparency while also producing metal-like conductivities with high carrier concentrations making it a promising candidate as an industrial replacement. This study investigates the processing of SrMoO4 bulk ceramic sputter targets for the sputter deposition of SrMoO3, which could validate SrMoO3 as industrially viable. A method for synthesis of high purity SrMoO4 powders is developed. Green body formation is optimized to form high purity sintered SrMoO4 sputter targets. Future work on optimization of this system is proposed based off of the results of this study.
