Although generally ascribed to the presence of defects, an ultimate assignment of the different contributions to the emission spectrum in terms of surface states and deep levels in ZnO nanostructures is still lacking. In this work we unambiguously give first evidence that zinc vacancies at the (1010) nonpolar surfaces are responsible for the green luminescence of ZnO nanostructures. The result is obtained by performing an exhaustive comparison between spatially resolved cathodoluminescence spectroscopy and imaging and ab initio simulations. Our findings are crucial to control undesired recombinations in nanostructured devices.

Zn vacancy induced green luminescence on non-polar surfaces in ZnO nanostructures / F., Fabbri; M., Villani; A., Catellani; A., Calzolari; Cicero, Giancarlo; D., Calestani; G., Calestani; A., Zappettini; B., Dierre; T., Sekiguchi; G., Salviati. - In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. - ISSN 2045-2322. - ELETTRONICO. - 5:(2014), p. 5158. [10.1038/srep05158]

Zn vacancy induced green luminescence on non-polar surfaces in ZnO nanostructures

CICERO, Giancarlo;
2014

Abstract

Although generally ascribed to the presence of defects, an ultimate assignment of the different contributions to the emission spectrum in terms of surface states and deep levels in ZnO nanostructures is still lacking. In this work we unambiguously give first evidence that zinc vacancies at the (1010) nonpolar surfaces are responsible for the green luminescence of ZnO nanostructures. The result is obtained by performing an exhaustive comparison between spatially resolved cathodoluminescence spectroscopy and imaging and ab initio simulations. Our findings are crucial to control undesired recombinations in nanostructured devices.
2014
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