Effect of sodium p-type doping on the structural, electrical and optical properties of zinc oxide

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• 作者：D.E. Aimouch^a ; ^{aimouch.djamel@hotmail.com} ; S. Meskine^a ; Y. Benaissa Cherif^a ; A. Zaoui^b ; A. Boukortt^a
• 关键词：FP-LAPW ; LSDA ; ZnO ; Na ; p-type ; Optoelectronics
• 刊名：Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：130
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1320-1326
• 全文大小：1433 K
• 卷排序：130

文摘

Electronic and optical properties of Na doped zinc oxide (ZnO:Na) were calculated with the FP-LAPW method by using the LSDA approximations. The lattice constants of ZnO calculated in this study is in a good agreement with experimental and theoretical values. The band gap was increased slightly by doping with Na impurity. Furthermore, we calculated the density of states of Na doped ZnO. The results show that acceptor concentration increases with an increase in Na concentration. Na doping introduces a much shallow acceptor (above the Fermi level), which is of typical p-type behavior. On the other hand, the refractive index, the dielectric function, and the absorption coefficient were determined and show a good agreement with available experimental data. Sodium doping leads to an optical peak at about 395 nm. We found that the intensity of this optical peak increases by the incorporation of Na into ZnO. That peak might improve the optical characteristics of ZnO for solar cell and optical applications.