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A Computational Study of Oxygen Contamination in Sb2Te3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

John Earl Boyd ,
Arthur Edwards  and
Andrew C. Pineda
John Earl Boyd
Affiliation:
john.boyd@kirtland.af.mil, Air Force Research Lab, Space Vehicles Directorate, AFRL/VSSE, 3550 Aberdeen Ave SE, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, 87117, United States, 505 853 3157, 505 846 2290
Arthur Edwards
Affiliation:
arthur.edwards@kirtland.af.mil, Air Force Research Lab, Space Vehicles Directorate, AFRL/VSSE, 3550 Aberdeen Ave SE, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, 87117, United States
Andrew C. Pineda
Affiliation:
andrew.pineda@kirtland.af.mil, Air Force Research Lab, Space Vehicles Directorate, AFRL/VSSE, 3550 Aberdeen Ave SE, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, 87117, United States
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Abstract

We present first principles electronic structure calculations of oxygen substitutional defects in the Sb2Te3 layered crystalline system and a model of amorphous Sb2Te3 using density functional theory (DFT). Our calculated formation energies for oxygen substitutional defects at Sb sites are above 2 eV, so most of our results are on the Sb2Te3-xOx [x = .0074 - .20] system, where one of two inequivalent Te sites are instead occupied by a single oxygen atom with formation energies between -1.2 eV and .2 eV. Defect formation energies for the system show a preference for oxygen atoms on the Te1 site at low concentrations that switches to the Te2 site at high concentrations at approximately 6 atomic percent. In agreement with experiment, we find that oxygen does widen the band gap, even at relatively low concentrations.

Keywords

SbTeoxide
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 918: Symposium H – Chalcogenide Alloys for Reconfigurable Electronics , 2006 , 0918-H05-11-G06-11
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

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