Issue 17, 2015

The Zn-vacancy related green luminescence and donor–acceptor pair emission in ZnO grown by pulsed laser deposition

Abstract

A low temperature (10 K) photoluminescence study shows that green luminescence (GL) peaking at 2.47 eV and near band edge (NBE) emission at 3.23 eV are introduced in undoped ZnO grown by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) after 900 °C annealing. The NBE emission exhibiting blue shift with increasing temperature is assigned to the transitions of the donor–acceptor-pair (DAP)/free-electron-to-acceptor (FA). Positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS) study shows that the introduction of the GL is correlated with the formation of the Zn vacancy-related defect (VZn). Comparing the transition energies of VZn obtained by the previous first principles calculation [Janotti and Van de Walle, Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter Mater. Phys., 2007, 76, 165202], the GL is associated with the transition from the conduction band to the ε(−/2−) state of VZn and the DAP/FA emission involves the acceptor level ε(0/−) of VZn.

Graphical abstract: The Zn-vacancy related green luminescence and donor–acceptor pair emission in ZnO grown by pulsed laser deposition

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
24 Oct 2014
Accepted
12 Jan 2015
First published
14 Jan 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 12530-12535

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The Zn-vacancy related green luminescence and donor–acceptor pair emission in ZnO grown by pulsed laser deposition

Z. Wang, S. C. Su, M. Younas, F. C. C. Ling, W. Anwand and A. Wagner, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 12530 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA13084G

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