We report the identification of a donor band and the correlation between n-type conductivity and the green emission in ZnO nanowires.Temperature-dependent photoluminescence is used to investigate nominally undoped ZnO...We report the identification of a donor band and the correlation between n-type conductivity and the green emission in ZnO nanowires.Temperature-dependent photoluminescence is used to investigate nominally undoped ZnO nanowires with high n-type conductivity.Within the whole temperature range,a dominant free-to-bound transition with a donor band of about 150meV below the conduction band minimum is observed.The nanowires show very strong green emission,which is quenched with activation energy of about 220 meV.The correlation between the high n-type conductivity and the strong green emission is discussed in detail,and we suggest that they may have different origins.展开更多
基金Supported by the Research Program in Baoji University of Arts and Sciences under Grant No ZK072the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 60806003+2 种基金the Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China under Grant No 20070335010the Priority Research Centers Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)Funded by the Ministry of Education,Science and Technology(2009-0094049,313-2007-2-C00266)Excellence Research Program in Ajou University.
文摘We report the identification of a donor band and the correlation between n-type conductivity and the green emission in ZnO nanowires.Temperature-dependent photoluminescence is used to investigate nominally undoped ZnO nanowires with high n-type conductivity.Within the whole temperature range,a dominant free-to-bound transition with a donor band of about 150meV below the conduction band minimum is observed.The nanowires show very strong green emission,which is quenched with activation energy of about 220 meV.The correlation between the high n-type conductivity and the strong green emission is discussed in detail,and we suggest that they may have different origins.