Microscopic origins of electron and hole stability in ZnO
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- 15 February 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- Vol. 47 (12), 3386-3388
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cc10314h
Abstract
We present a fundamental method to assess the doping limits of hetero-polar materials; applied to the case of ZnO, we show clearly that electrons are stable and holes are unstable under the limits of thermodynamic control.Keywords
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