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Deep donor state of the copper acceptor as a source of green luminescence in ZnO

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Copper impurities have long been linked with green luminescence (GL) in ZnO. Copper is known to introduce an acceptor level close to the conduction band of ZnO, and the GL… Click to show full abstract

Copper impurities have long been linked with green luminescence (GL) in ZnO. Copper is known to introduce an acceptor level close to the conduction band of ZnO, and the GL has conventionally been attributed to transitions involving an excited state which localizes holes on neighboring oxygen atoms. To date, a theoretical description of the optical properties of such deep centers has been difficult to achieve due to the limitations of functionals in the density functional theory. Here, we employ a screened hybrid density functional to calculate the properties of Cu in ZnO. In agreement with the experiment, we find that CuZn features an acceptor level near the conduction band of ZnO. However, we find that CuZn also gives rise to a deep donor level 0.46 eV above the valence band of ZnO; the calculated optical transitions involving this state agree well with the GL observed in ZnO:Cu.

Keywords: state; green luminescence; deep donor; zno; copper; luminescence zno

Journal Title: Applied Physics Letters
Year Published: 2017

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