First-principles study of vacancy-assisted impurity diffusion in ZnO

Group-III elements act as donors in ZnO when incorporated on the Zn site. Their incorporation and behavior upon annealing is governed by diffusion, which proceeds mainly through a vacancy-assisted process. We report first-principles calculations for the migration of Al, Ga, and In donors in ZnO, bas...

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Main Authors: Daniel Steiauf, John L. Lyons, Anderson Janotti, Chris G. Van de Walle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2014-09-01
Series:APL Materials
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4894195