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Electronic structure of Cd, In, Sn substitutional Defects in GaSe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Zsolt Rak ,
Subhendra D Mahanti ,
Krishna C Mandal  and
Nils C Fernelius
Zsolt Rak
Affiliation:
[email protected], Michigan State University, Physics and Astronomy, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
Subhendra D Mahanti
Affiliation:
[email protected], Michigan State University, Physics and Astronomy, East Lansing, MI, 48824, United States
Krishna C Mandal
Affiliation:
[email protected], EIC Laboratories, Inc, 111 Downey Street, Norwood, MA, 02062, United States
Nils C Fernelius
Affiliation:
[email protected], Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, AFRL/MLPSO, Dayton, OH, 45433, United States
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Abstract

Ab initio electronic structure calculations within density functional theory have been carried out in pure GaSe and GaSe doped with substitutional impurities (Cd, In and Sn) at the Ga site in order to understand the nature of the defect states and how they depend on the nominal valence of these three impurities. We find that Cd impurity introduces a defect state located between 0.1 – 0.18 eV above the valence band, in good agreement with photoluminescence peaks seen at 0.13 eV and 0.18 eV. Using both experimental and theoretical effective mass parameters we show that effective mass model fails to describe these acceptor states. Sn changes the single particle density of states (DOS) near the bottom of the conduction band, and gives rise to resonant states deep in the valence band. In, on the other hand, behaves like Ga, it does not make noticeable change in the DOS of the host GaSe crystal.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 994: Symposium F – Semiconductor Defect Engineering–Materials, Synthetic Structures and Devices II , 2007 , 0994-F03-10
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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