The invention discloses an 
indium oxide doped 
cadmium oxide target material as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The preparation method of the doped 
cadmium oxide target material comprises the following steps: (1) carrying out ball milling on 
cadmium oxide 
powder and 
indium oxide 
powder according to the 
mass ratio of CdO to In2O3 being (95-99.5):(0.5-5) for uniform mixing; (2) putting the mixture obtained in the step (1) into a mold, and then putting the mold into a vacuum 
hot pressing furnace; (3) vacuumizing the vacuum 
hot pressing furnace, when the vacuum degree is smaller than or equal to 10 Pa, starting heating, conducting heat preservation for 1-3 h at the temperature of 700-800 DEG C, starting pressurization after heat preservation is conducted for 10-50 min through pressurization pressure of 10-40 MPa, keeping the pressure maintaining time for 20-40 min, and when the temperature is reduced to 400-600 DEG C, reducing the pressure to 3-15 MPa; and (4) when the temperature is reduced to 
room temperature, opening a furnace door, and conducting demolding to obtain the doped 
cadmium oxide target material. The grain size of the target material is smaller than 10 micrometers, the bending strength is larger than 80 MPa, the 
sputtering effect is good, when the target material is used for preparing the CdO-based conductive film through 
sputtering, the film can contain In, the light-transmitting 
wave band of the film is widened, other impurities cannot be introduced, and the requirement for the 
sputtering condition is low.