Wednesday, April 4, 2012

1204.0364 (Masahiko Matsubara et al.)

Attracting shallow donors: Hydrogen passivation in (Al,Ga,In)-doped ZnO    [PDF]

Masahiko Matsubara, Mozhgan N. Amini, Rolando Saniz, Dirk Lamoen, Bart Partoens
The hydrogen interstitial and the substitutional Al_Zn, Ga_Zn and In_Zn are all shallow donors in ZnO and lead to n-type conductivity. Although shallow donors are expected to repel each other, we show by first principles calculations that in ZnO these shallow donor impurities attract and form a complex, leading to a donor level deep in the band gap. This puts a limit on the n-type conductivity of (Al,Ga,In)-doped ZnO in the presence of hydrogen.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0364

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