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Cu3PSe4缺陷物理和电子性质的第一性原理研究

Defect physics and electronic properties of Cu3PSe4 from first principles

D. H. Foster, F. L. Barras, J. M. Vielma, G. Schneider

摘要:

最近已经确定p型半导体Cu 3 PSe 4具有1.4eV的直接带隙和类似于GaAs的光学吸收光谱[应用物理快报,99,181903(2011)],这表明了作为太阳能光伏吸收体的可能应用。在这里,我们计算的热力学稳定性,缺陷的能量和浓度,和几个材料性质的Cu 3 PSe 4使用全GGA+U方法(广义梯度近似的密度泛函理论与Hubbard U项包括的Cu-d轨道)。我们发现两个低能受主型缺陷,铜空位V_Cu和硒上磷反位P_Se,建立了p型行为,并可能阻止任何n型掺杂接近热平衡。GGA+U缺陷计算方法被示出为产生更准确的结果比更标准的方法,应用后计算GGA+基于U的带隙校正严格GGA缺陷计算。

英文摘要:

The p-type semiconductor Cu3PSe4 has recently been established to have a direct bandgap of 1.4 eV and an optical absorption spectrum similar to GaAs [Applied Physics Letters, 99, 181903 (2011)], suggesting a possible application as a solar photovoltaic absorber. Here we calculate the thermodynamic stability, defect energies and concentrations, and several material properties of Cu3PSe4 using a wholly GGA+U method (the generalized gradient approximation of density functional theory with a Hubbard U term included for the Cu-d orbitals). We find that two low energy acceptor-type defects, the copper vacancy V_Cu and the phosphorus-on-selenium antisite P_Se, establish the p-type behavior and likely prevent any n-type doping near thermal equilibrium. The GGA+U defect calculation method is shown to yield more accurate results than the more standard method of applying post-calculation GGA+U-based bandgap corrections to strictly GGA defect calculations.

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