Sb doping behavior and its effect on crystal structure, conductivity and photoluminescence of ZnO film in depositing and annealing processes

Structural, optical and electrical properties of N-doped ZnO thin films prepared by thermal oxidation of pulsed filtered cathodic vacuum arc deposited ZnxNy films

“…These properties make the ZnO an important semiconductor for various applications in optoelectronic devices such as UV light-emitting diodes, laser diodes and photodetectors [1,3]. To reach such goals, the fabrication of stable and reproducible n and p-type ZnO with excellent electrical and optical properties are very important [1,4,5].…”

“…It has been suggested that p-type doping in ZnO can be achieved through substituting either group I elements, such as Na [11], K [12] or Li [13] with Zn or group V elements, such as N [10], P [14], As [5] or Sb [3] for oxygen. Furthermore, Li-N [9] and Al-N [2] co-doped ZnO films have also been studied to produce p-type ZnO.…”

Structural and optical properties of SbAl co-doped ZnO nanowires synthesized using Nanoparticle Assisted Pulsed Laser Deposition (NAPLD) with Sb as catalyst

“…Al:As co-doped ZnO thin film synthesized using magnetron sputtering and Sb:Al co-doped ZnO thin films synthesized using sol-gel also confirms the p-type doping of the samples [20,21]. In addition annealing of these codoped thin films will lead to significant change in their structural, optical and electronics properties [22]. However there are limited on reports in synthesizes of co-doped ZnO nano structures and characterization of their properties towards functional device applications.…”

Low resistivity p-type Zn1−Al O:Cu2O composite transparent conducting oxide thin film fabricated by sol–gel method

“…Thus far, several experimental [9][10][11][12] and theoretical investigations [13][14][15] to obtain p-type ZnO have been reported. In recent years, P [16], N [17], As [18], Sb [19], Ag [20], Al-N co-doped [21] and Li-N co-doped [22] have been studied extensively as promising dopants for p-type ZnO. The introduction of these dopants and defect complexes during fabrication has been reported to change the type of conductivity, as well as the optical and electrical properties.…”