Ab initio studies of electronic structure of defects in PbTe

Details Ab initio studies of electronic structure of defects in PbTe Ab initio studies of electronic structure of defects in PbTe

2006-05-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605538v1

PHYSICAL REVIEW B 74, 155205 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.155205

Understanding the detailed electronic structure of deep defect states in narrow band-gap semiconductors has been a challenging problem. Recently, self-consistent ab initio calculations within density functional theory (DFT) using supercell models have been successful in tackling this problem. In this paper, we carry out such calculations in PbTe, a well-known narrow band-gap semiconductor, for a large class of defects: cationic and anionic substitutional impurities of different valence, and cationic and anionic vacancies. For the cationic defects, we study a series of compounds RPb2n-1Te2n, where R is vacancy or monovalent, divalent, or trivalent atom; for the anionic defects, we study compounds MPb2nTe2n-1, where M is vacancy, S, Se or I. We find that the density of states (DOS) near the top of the valence band and the bottom of the conduction band get significantly modified for most of these defects. This suggests that the transport properties of PbTe in the presence of impurities can not be interpreted by simple carrier doping concepts, confirming such ideas developed from qualitative and semi-quantitative arguments.

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