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Surface-mediated mechanisms for defect engineering in zinc oxide

Li, Ming

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Title
Surface-mediated mechanisms for defect engineering in zinc oxide
Author(s)
Li, Ming
Issue Date
2016-11-23
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Seebauer, Edmund G.
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Seebauer, Edmund G.
Committee Member(s)
  • Yang, Hong
  • Flaherty, David W.
  • Ertekin, Elif
Department of Study
Chemical & Biomolecular Engr
Discipline
Chemical Engineering
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Date of Ingest
2017-03-01T17:01:33Z
Keyword(s)
  • Defect engineering
  • Surface science
  • Metal oxides
  • Zinc oxide
  • Oxygen interstitial
  • Oxygen diffusion
  • Isotope gas-solid exchange
Abstract
The technological usefulness of a solid often depends upon the types and concentrations of the defects it contains. In semiconducting metal oxides like zinc oxide, the concentration and diffusion of oxygen point defects, like interstitials and vacancies, play a central role in various physical phenomena, such as gas sensing, bipolar switching, photoluminescence and photocatalysis. Defect engineering in metal oxides aims at manipulating material properties through controlling the defects’ type, concentration, charge, spatial distribution, and mobility. A specific challenge that inhibits performance improvement in metal oxide devices for microelectronics, photonics, and photocatalysis usages is that bulk oxygen vacancies (VO) are typically numerous and serve as carrier recombination centers or electron current scatterers. One solution suggested by our laboratory is to thermally inject highly mobile charged oxygen interstitials (Oi) through metal oxide surfaces from the gas phase to annihilate VO in the underlying bulk. Developing novel mechanisms to control such diffusion process would be crucial in tailoring material defect chemistry for real life applications. The present work demostrates two special surface-based control mechanisms for this purpose in the case of zinc oxide: near-surface electrostatics and the chemical state of surface active sites.
Graduation Semester
2016-12
Type of Resource
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Copyright 2016 Ming Li

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