Zinc vacancy and oxygen interstitial in ZnO revealed by sequential annealing and electron irradiation
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© 2012 American Physical Society (APS). This is the accepted version of the following article: Knutsen, K. E. & Galeckas, A. & Zubiaga, A. & Tuomisto, Filip & Farlow, G. C. & Svensson, B. G. & Kuznetsov, A. Yu. 2012. Zinc vacancy and oxygen interstitial in ZnO revealed by sequential annealing and electron irradiation. Physical Review B. Volume 86, Issue 12. 121203/1-5. ISSN 1098-0121 (printed). DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.86.121203, which has been published in final form at http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.121203.
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2012
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121203/1-5
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Physical Review B, Volume 86, Issue 12
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By combining results from positron annihilation and photoluminescence spectroscopy with data from Hall effect measurements, the characteristic deep level emission centered at ∼1.75 eV and exhibiting an activation energy of thermal quenching of 11.5 meV is associated with the zinc vacancy. Further, a strong indication that oxygen interstitials act as a dominating acceptor is derived from the analysis of charge carrier losses induced by electron irradiation with variable energy below and above the threshold for Zn-atom displacement. We also demonstrate that the commonly observed green emission is related to an extrinsic acceptorlike impurity, which may be readily passivated by oxygen vacancies.Description
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ZnO, photoluminescence, positrons, vacancies
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Knutsen, K. E. & Galeckas, A. & Zubiaga, A. & Tuomisto, Filip & Farlow, G. C. & Svensson, B. G. & Kuznetsov, A. Yu. 2012. Zinc vacancy and oxygen interstitial in ZnO revealed by sequential annealing and electron irradiation. Physical Review B. Volume 86, Issue 12. 121203/1-5. ISSN 1098-0121 (printed). DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.86.121203