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American Chemical Society, Nano Letters, 3(12), p. 1311-1316, 2012

DOI: 10.1021/nl203848t

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Stable p-Type Conduction from Sb-Decorated Head-to-Head Basal Plane Inversion Domain Boundaries in ZnO Nanowires

Journal article published in 2012 by Andrew B. Yankovich, Zhenqiang, Brian Puchala, Fei Wang, Jung-Hun Seo, Dane Morgan, Xudong Wang, Zhenqiang Ma, Alex V. Kvit, Paul M. Voyles ORCID
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Abstract

We report that Sb-decorated head-to-head (H-H) basal plane inversion domain boundaries (b-IDBs) lead to stable p-type conduction in Sb-doped ZnO nanowires (NWs) due to Sb and O codoping. Aberration-corrected Z-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy shows that all of the Sb in the NWs is incorporated into H-H b-IDBs just under the (0001) NW growth surfaces and the (0001) bottom facets of interior voids. Density functional theory calculations show that the extra basal plane of O per H-H b-IDB makes them electron acceptors. NWs containing these defects exhibited stable p-type behavior in a single NW FET over 18 months. This new mechanism for p-type conduction in ZnO offers the potential of ZnO NW based p-n homojunction devices.