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Modulation of the Bi3+ 6s2 Lone Pair State in Perovskites for High-Mobility p-Type Oxide Semiconductors

Shi, J; Rubinstein, EA; Li, W; Zhang, J; Yang, Y; Lee, T-L; Qin, C; ... Zhang, KHL; + view all (2022) Modulation of the Bi3+ 6s2 Lone Pair State in Perovskites for High-Mobility p-Type Oxide Semiconductors. Advanced Science , Article e2104141. 10.1002/advs.202104141. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Oxide semiconductors are key materials in many technologies from flat-panel displays,solar cells to transparent electronics. However, many potential applications are hindered by the lack of high mobility p-type oxide semiconductors due to the localized O-2p derived valence band (VB) structure. In this work, the VB structure modulation is reported for perovskite Ba2 BiMO6 (M = Bi, Nb, Ta) via the Bi 6s2 lone pair state to achieve p-type oxide semiconductors with high hole mobility up to 21 cm2 V-1 s-1 , and optical bandgaps widely varying from 1.5 to 3.2 eV. Pulsed laser deposition is used to grow high quality epitaxial thin films. Synergistic combination of hard x-ray photoemission, x-ray absorption spectroscopies, and density functional theory calculations are used to gain insight into the electronic structure of Ba2 BiMO6 . The high mobility is attributed to the highly dispersive VB edges contributed from the strong coupling of Bi 6s with O 2p at the top of VB that lead to low hole effective masses (0.4-0.7 me ). Large variation in bandgaps results from the change in the energy positions of unoccupied Bi 6s orbital or Nb/Ta d orbitals that form the bottom of conduction band. P-N junction diode constructed with p-type Ba2 BiTaO6 and n-type Nb doped SrTiO3 exhibits high rectifying ratio of 1.3 × 104 at ±3 V, showing great potential in fabricating high-quality devices. This work provides deep insight into the electronic structure of Bi3+ based perovskites and guides the development of new p-type oxide semiconductors.

Type: Article
Title: Modulation of the Bi3+ 6s2 Lone Pair State in Perovskites for High-Mobility p-Type Oxide Semiconductors
Location: Germany
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202104141
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202104141
Language: English
Additional information: © 2021 The Authors. Advanced Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative CommonsAttribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction inany medium, provided the original work is properly cited
Keywords: DFT calculations, electronic structures, p-type oxide semiconductors, photoemission spectroscopy
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10141635
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