Transition metal elements as donor dopants in CdO
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- City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon (Hong Kong); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)
- City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon (Hong Kong)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Huizhou University (China)
- Shantou University, Guangdong (China)
- Huaiyin Normal University, Jiangsu (China)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
CdO has been shown to achieve a high electron concentration N (> 1021cm-3) and at the same time a high mobility μ (> 100cm2/V s) when doped with conventional shallow dopants (In or Ga), and consequently making it a transparent conducting oxide with very low resistivity ρ <10-4 $$\Omega$$ cm. In this work, the properties of CdO thin films doped with a series of transition metal elements (CdO:TM) with partially filled 3d and 4d shells, including Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Y, Mo, and W, were investigated. We find that doping with these TM elements can effectively increase the N in CdO to a maximum N (Nmax) of ~(7-12)×1020cm-3 with a dopant concentration xmax of 4-7 %. However, unlike CdO:In, the μ of CdO:TM films drops rapidly from > 100 to < 10cm2/Vs as the dopant concentration x increases, so that they can only achieve a minimum ρ of ~ (1-2) × 10-4 $$\Omega$$ cm, ~ a factor of 2-3 higher than that in CdO:In. As a result, free-carrier absorption and plasma reflection effects limit their optical transparency to <1200 nm. For most 3d TM dopants, a qualitatively higher d-donor level Ed,donor gives rise to higher EF,max or a higher Nmax. Although at low x, the optical band gap Eopt of CdO:TM follows the calculated values due to free-carrier effects, as x increases, Eopt values are significantly higher than the calculated values. This is believed to be an effect of the anticrossing interaction of the localized d-levels and the extended CdO conduction-band (CB) states, giving rise to a lower occupied E- and an upper unoccupied E+ subband. In conclusion, the restructured CBs have much flatter dispersion, which also results in a much higher effective mass $$m^{\star}_{e}$$, hence it can also explain the much lower μ of CdO:TM films with high N.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 2326177
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Materials, Vol. 7, Issue 7; ISSN 2475-9953
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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