Intrinsic defect structures in zinc oxide

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Zinc oxide is an important semiconductor material used in a wide range of industrial applications, many of which require both n-type and p-type components. It can easily be doped n-type, but it is difficult to dope p-type. This has been attributed to the nature of its intrinsic defects, which cause a self-compensation of free carriers. It is, therefore, important to understand the nature of its intrinsic defects. There have been many first-principles calculations of the stability of intrinsic defects in zinc oxide. These theoretical predictions also give the local distortion of the surrounding lattice, and this can be tested directly using diffuse neutron scattering. We have large single crystals of as-grown nominally stoichiometric, oxidised and reduced zinc oxide, and we propose to measure the diffuse scattering using neutron Laue diffraction on SXD.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.79107553
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/79107553
Provenance
Creator Dr Dharmalingan Prabhakaran; Mr David Bowman; Dr Uthayakumar Sivaperumal; Professor Jon Goff; Mr Tim Lehner; Mr Chris Nuttall; Dr Matthias Gutmann; Dr Rob Potter; Dr Keith Refson
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-04-14T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-04-18T09:00:00Z