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Neutron irradiation induced defects in oxides and their impact on the oxide properties

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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
卷 129, 期 21, 页码 -

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AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/5.0046292

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  1. FUTURE (Fundamental Understanding of Transport Under Reactor Extremes), an Energy Frontier Research Center - U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences
  2. Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, an Office of Science User Facility
  3. U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA [89233218CNA000001]

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This study investigates the effects of neutron irradiation on the formation of defects, and on the structural, optical, and electrical properties of ZnO single crystals. The research demonstrates that neutron irradiation leads to significant deterioration of the ZnO structure, forming a high concentration of point defects, vacancy clusters, and voids with large disparities in their structures across different irradiation times. Additionally, neutron irradiation induces significant changes in the optical properties and sample color, as well as the production of new impurities and dopants such as Cu acceptors and Ga donors.
Understanding the irradiation-induced defects in oxides is of interest for a wide range of applications. ZnO is an interesting oxide with mixed ionic and covalent bonding that contains a variety of point defect structures-making it an excellent model for studying irradiation-induced defects and their impact on properties. Here, we investigate the effects of neutron irradiation on the formation of defects and on the structural, optical, and electrical properties of ZnO single crystals. We observe the formation of vacancies and voids via positron annihilation spectroscopy. Neutron irradiation led to a significant deterioration of the ZnO structure and formed a high concentration of point defects, vacancy clusters, and voids with large disparities in their structure across variable irradiation times. It also led to significant changes in the optical properties and sample color. Irradiation for 444 h induced a high concentration of Cu acceptors as well as a high concentration of Ga donors. Temperature-dependent Hall effect measurements revealed the competing production of donors and acceptors and showed an increase in the slope of the carrier freeze-out curve with increasing irradiation dose. This work demonstrates the combined effects of neutron irradiation in producing a wide range of structural defects, impurities, and dopants in oxides and their enormous impact on modifying the oxide structure and both the optical and electronic properties. It particularly emphasizes the importance of considering the production of new impurities and dopants during the neutron irradiation of oxides.

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