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Electroluminescence Properties of a Zinc Oxide Nanorod Array Heterojunction Light-Emitting Diode

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A p-GaN/i-MgO/n-ZnO nanorod array (NRA) heterojunction light-emitting diode has been fabricated. Its room-temperature electroluminescence spectra under different forward biases revealed a strong emission band across the whole visible region, which was blue-shifted when increasing the forward bias. The origin of this visible emission is considered to be related to oxygen vacancy (VO) defects in different valence states, where the blue emission (∼ 460 nm) comes from neutral oxygen vacancy (V XO ) defects and the green emission (∼ 520 nm) from singly charged oxygen vacancy (V +O ) defects, while the yellow (∼ 580 nm) and red emission (∼ 670 nm) are attributed to doubly charge oxygen vacancy (V ++O ) defects. These VO defects in different states can convert into one another under different excitation conditions, resulting in the blue-shift of the emission peak as the forward voltage is increased.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51872187, 60976036, 21805194, 61704111, and 11774241), National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFB0400304), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant Nos. 2016A030313060 and 2017A030310524), Fundamental Research Project of Shenzhen (Grant Nos. JCYJ20180305124701756, JCYJ20180305071822 48925, and JCYJ20180508163404043), and Science and Technology Foundation of Shenzhen (JCY J2016-2019).

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    Hua Jiang, Youming Lu, Ximing Rong, Shun Han, Peijiang Cao, Yuxiang Zeng, Wangying Xu, Ming Fang, Wenjun Liu & Deliang Zhu

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Jiang, H., Lu, Y., Rong, X. et al. Electroluminescence Properties of a Zinc Oxide Nanorod Array Heterojunction Light-Emitting Diode. J. Electron. Mater. 49, 4537–4543 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-020-07955-9

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Keywords

  • ZnO nanorod array
  • heterojunction
  • electroluminescence
  • oxygen vacancy defect
  • pulsed laser deposition