1ST-PRINCIPLES STUDY OF ANTISITE AND INTERSTITIAL PHOSPHORUS IMPURITIES IN ZNSE

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作者
KWAK, KW [1 ]
VANDERBILT, D [1 ]
KINGSMITH, RD [1 ]
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[1] BIOSYM TECHNOL INC,SAN DIEGO,CA 92121
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1994年 / 50卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.50.2711
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
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The antisite and interstitial phosphorus defects in ZnSe have been studied by pseudopotential total-energy calculations to investigate their roles in the p-type doping problem of ZnSe. Our calculations suggest that the difficulty in p-type doping of ZnSe with phosphorus is caused by the compensation of shallow acceptors by the antisite defects P(Zn), which act as triple donors. A microscopic model for two ionization levels of phosphorus acceptors in ZnSe (one shallow at 84+/-4 meV and one deep at 0.6-0.7 eV) is also proposed. The shallow acceptor level is attributed to a P substituted at a Se site, while the deep acceptor is assigned to the 2+ charge state of an interstitial P atom near the hexagonal interstitial site.
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页码:2711 / 2714
页数:4
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