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Evidence for Native-Defect Donors in n-Type ZnO
Physical Review Letters
  • David C. Look, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Gary C. Farlow, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Pakpoom Reunchan
  • Sukit Limpijumnong
  • S. B. Zhang
  • K. Nordlund
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2005
Abstract

Recent theory has found that native defects such as the O vacancy VO and Zn interstitial ZnI have high formation energies in n-type ZnO and, thus, are not important donors, especially in comparison to impurities such as H. In contrast, we use both theory and experiment to show that, under N ambient, the complex ZnI-NO is a stronger candidate than H or any other known impurity for a 30 meV donor commonly found in bulk ZnO grown from the vapor phase. Since the Zn vacancy is also the dominant acceptor in such material, we must conclude that native defects are important donors and acceptors in ZnO.

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The original publication is available at http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v95/i22/e225502

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.225502
Citation Information
David C. Look, Gary C. Farlow, Pakpoom Reunchan, Sukit Limpijumnong, et al.. "Evidence for Native-Defect Donors in n-Type ZnO" Physical Review Letters Vol. 95 Iss. 22 (2005) ISSN: 0031-9007
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gary_farlow/9/