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Charge Transport and the Nature of Traps in Oxygen Deficient Tantalum Oxide. / Gritsenko, Vladimir A.; Perevalov, Timofey V.; Voronkovskii, Vitalii A. et al.
In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 10, No. 4, 31.01.2018, p. 3769-3775.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Charge Transport and the Nature of Traps in Oxygen Deficient Tantalum Oxide
AU - Gritsenko, Vladimir A.
AU - Perevalov, Timofey V.
AU - Voronkovskii, Vitalii A.
AU - Gismatulin, Andrei A.
AU - Kruchinin, Vladimir N.
AU - Aliev, Vladimir Sh
AU - Pustovarov, Vladimir A.
AU - Prosvirin, Igor P.
AU - Roizin, Yakov
PY - 2018/1/31
Y1 - 2018/1/31
N2 - Optical and transport properties of nonstoichiometric tantalum oxide thin films grown by ion beam deposition were investigated in order to understand the dominant charge transport mechanisms and reveal the nature of traps. The TaOx films composition was analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and by quantum-chemistry simulation. From the optical absorption and photoluminescence measurements and density functional theory simulations, it was concluded that the 2.75 eV blue luminescence excited in a TaOx by 4.45 eV photons, originates from oxygen vacancies. These vacancies are also responsible for TaOx conductivity. The thermal trap energy of 0.85 eV determined from the transport experiments coincides with the half of the Stokes shift of the blue luminescence band. It is argued that the dominant charge transport mechanism in TaOx films is phonon-assisted tunneling between the traps.
AB - Optical and transport properties of nonstoichiometric tantalum oxide thin films grown by ion beam deposition were investigated in order to understand the dominant charge transport mechanisms and reveal the nature of traps. The TaOx films composition was analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and by quantum-chemistry simulation. From the optical absorption and photoluminescence measurements and density functional theory simulations, it was concluded that the 2.75 eV blue luminescence excited in a TaOx by 4.45 eV photons, originates from oxygen vacancies. These vacancies are also responsible for TaOx conductivity. The thermal trap energy of 0.85 eV determined from the transport experiments coincides with the half of the Stokes shift of the blue luminescence band. It is argued that the dominant charge transport mechanism in TaOx films is phonon-assisted tunneling between the traps.
KW - ab initio simulation
KW - charge transport
KW - optic
KW - oxygen vacancy
KW - photoluminescence
KW - Traps
KW - XPS
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85041337492&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1021/acsami.7b16753
DO - 10.1021/acsami.7b16753
M3 - Article
C2 - 29308879
AN - SCOPUS:85041337492
VL - 10
SP - 3769
EP - 3775
JO - ACS applied materials & interfaces
JF - ACS applied materials & interfaces
SN - 1944-8244
IS - 4
ER -
ID: 10452741