Title

Reducible and non-reducible defect clusters in tin-doped indium oxide

Authors

Authors

T. M. Inerbaev; R. Sahara; H. Mizuseki; Y. Kawazoe;T. Nakamura

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Solid State Commun.

Keywords

Semiconductors; Point defects; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDES; AUGMENTED-WAVE METHOD; ELECTRICAL-PROPERTIES; INTERSTITIAL OXYGEN; POINT-DEFECTS; IN2O3; SURFACES; ITO; CHEMISTRY; Physics, Condensed Matter

Abstract

Density functional theory calculations are used to estimate the energy of interstitial oxygen (O(i)) released from tin-doped indium oxide (ITO). The currently accepted explanation of defect clusters' irreducibility is based on different arrangements of doping atoms around O(i). in the present contribution we demonstrate that this concept has only a limited domain of applicability and explains the relative stability of different defect clusters with the same and fixed Sn:O(i) ratio. To describe practically the important case of ITO treatment under strong reduction conditions another limiting case of varying Sn:O(i) ratio is considered. It is found that in this particular case local coordination of doping atoms around O(i) plays only a minor role. The relative stability of the oxidized defect clusters has caused a noticeable change in the electronic part of the defect formation energy, i.e. the chemical potential of the conduction electrons determines the equilibrium concentration of the interstitial oxygen atoms. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Solid State Communications

Volume

150

Issue/Number

1-2

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

18

Last Page

21

WOS Identifier

WOS:000272602700005

ISSN

0038-1098

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