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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 5, 期 7, 页码 1117-1125出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jz5001787
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- U.S. Department of Energy, office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, as a part of the Ternary Copper Nitride Absorbers Next Generation PV II project within the SunShot initiative [DE-AC36-08GO28308]
Defect tolerance is the tendency of a semiconductor to keep its properties despite the presence of crystallographic defects. Scientific understanding of the origin of defect tolerance is currently missing. Here we show that semiconductors with antibonding states at the top of the valence band are likely to be tolerant to defects. Theoretical calculations demonstrate that Cu3N with antibonding valence band maximum has shallow intrinsic defects and no surface states, in contrast to GaN with bonding valence band maximum. Experimental measurements indicate shallow native donors and acceptors in Cu3N thin films, leading to 10(16)-10(17) cm(-3) doping with either electrons or holes depending on the growth conditions. The experimentally measured bipolar doping and the solar-matched optical absorption onset (1.4 eV) make Cu3N a promising candidate absorber for photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical solar cells, despite the calculated indirect fundamental band gap (1.0 eV). These conclusions can be extended to other materials with antibonding character of the valence band, defining a class of defect-tolerant semiconductors for solar energy conversion applications.
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