p-Type conductivity mechanism and defect structure of nitrogen-doped LiNbO3 from first-principles calculations

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiwei Wang ◽  
Yang Zhong ◽  
Dahuai Zheng ◽  
Hongde Liu ◽  
Yongfa Kong ◽  
...  

The charge-state transition level and geometry structure of non-metallic N-doped LiNbO3 are calculated by DFT, which reveal the p-type conductivity mechanism of LiNbO3:N.

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1784-1784
Author(s):  
Weiwei Wang ◽  
Yang Zhong ◽  
Dahuai Zheng ◽  
Hongde Liu ◽  
Yongfa Kong ◽  
...  

Correction for ‘p-Type conductivity mechanism and defect structure of nitrogen-doped LiNbO3 from first-principles calculations’ by Weiwei Wang et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 20–27.


2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (26) ◽  
pp. 16705-16708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenzhe Niu ◽  
Hongbin Xu ◽  
Yanmin Guo ◽  
Yaguang Li ◽  
Zhizhen Ye ◽  
...  

The S dopants in S–N co-doped ZnO contribute to easier doping and p-type conductivity, as concluded by experiment and calculations.


2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 5485-5489 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. N. Amini ◽  
R. Saniz ◽  
D. Lamoen ◽  
B. Partoens

With the help of first-principles calculations, we investigate the VZn–NO–H acceptor complex in ZnO. We find that H plays an important role, because it lowers the formation energy of the complex with respect to VZn–NO, a complex known to exhibit p-type behavior. However, this additional H atom also occupies the hole level of VZn–NO making the VZn–NO–H complex a deep acceptor.


2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (02) ◽  
pp. 1450008 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIAN-MIN ZHANG ◽  
WANGXIANG FENG ◽  
PEI YANG ◽  
LIJIE SHI ◽  
YING ZHANG

Using first-principles calculations, we systematically investigate the defect physics in topological insulator AuTlS 2. An optimal growth condition is explicitly proposed to guide for the experimental synthesis. The stabilities of various native point defects under different growth conditions and different carrier environments are studied in detail. We show that the p-type conductivity is strongly preferred in AuTlS 2, and the band gap can be engineered by the control of intrinsic defects. Our results demonstrate that AuTlS 2 is an ideal p-type topological insulator which can be easily integrated with traditional semiconductor.


Author(s):  
Bo Kong ◽  
Tixian Zeng ◽  
Wentao Wang

Abstract: In this work, the n-type and p-type conductivity mechanisms of bulk BiOCl are systematically investigated using first-principles calculations. Under the O-rich growth conditions, BiOCl presents the intrinsic p-type conductivity,...


2010 ◽  
Vol 88 (12) ◽  
pp. 927-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Huang ◽  
Yuanming Pan

Intrinsic defects, including vacancies at the Cu and Al sites (VCu and VAl), substitutional Cu at the Al site (CuAl), and interstitial O (Oi), have been proposed to be responsible for the p-type conductivity in CuAlO2. We have investigated the formation energies of these and other intrinsic defects in CuAlO2 using GGA+U calculations. Our results support previous studies that the potential alignment and image charge correction are required in the calculation of defect formation energies by using the supercell approach. In CuAlO2, these p-type defects (VCu, VAl, CuAl, and Oi) invariably have lower formation energies than their n-type counterparts. Particularly, VCu and CuAl have the lowest formation energies among intrinsic defects, and therefore are most likely responsible for the p-type conductivity. However, the transition levels of the VCu and CuAl defects are deep, which are responsible for the poor p-type conductivity in CuAlO2.


1998 ◽  
Vol 537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando A. Reboredo ◽  
Sokrates T. Pantelides

AbstractIt is well known that hydrogen plays a key role in p-type doping of GaN. It is believed that H passivates substitutional Mg during growth by forming a Mgs-N-Hi complex; in subsequent annealing, H is removed, resulting in p-type doping. Several open questions have remained, however, such as experimental evidence for other complexes involving Mg and H and difficulties in accounting for the relatively high-temperature anneal needed to remove H. We present first principles calculations in terms of which we show that the doping process is in fact significantly more complex. In particular, interstitial Mg plays a major role in limiting p-type doping. Overall, several substitutional/interstitial complexes form and can bind H, with vibrational frequencies that account for hitherto unidentified observed lines. We predict that these defects, which limit doping efficiency, can be eliminated by annealing in an atmosphere of H and N prior to the final anneal that removes H.


2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (20) ◽  
pp. 1650257
Author(s):  
Meng Zhao ◽  
Wenjun Wang ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Junwei Yang ◽  
Weijie Hu ◽  
...  

Various Be:O-codoped AlN crystals have been investigated via first-principles calculations to evaluate the role of the different combinations in effectively and efficiently inducing p-type carriers. It is found that the O atom is favored to bond with two Be atoms. The formed Be2:O complexes decrease the acceptor ionization energy to 0.11 eV, which is 0.16 eV lower than that of an isolated Be in AlN, implying that the hole concentration could probably be increased by 2–3 orders of magnitude. The electronic structure of Be2:O-codoped AlN shows that the lower ionization energy can be attributed to the interaction between Be and O. The Be–O complexes, despite failing to induce p-type carriers for the mutual compensation of Be and O, introduce new occupied states on the valence-band maximum (VBM) and hence the energy needed for the transition of electrons to the acceptor level is reduced. Thus, the Be2:O codoping method is expected to be an effective and efficient approach to realizing p-type AlN.


2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (34) ◽  
pp. 21950-21959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhang Li ◽  
Guoyu Zhong ◽  
Hao Yu ◽  
Hongjuan Wang ◽  
Feng Peng

DFT calculations reveal a mixed mechanism for the oxygen reduction reaction catalyzed by nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes in acidic electrolyte.


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