Reversible carrier-type transition in gas-sensing oxides and nanostructures

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2010-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/1006.5304v2

ChemPhysChem 11 (2010) 3704

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

To be published in ChemPhysChem

Scientific paper

10.1002/cphc.201000572

Despite many important applications of a-Fe2O3 and Fe doped SnO2 in semiconductors, catalysis, sensors, clinical diagnosis and treatments, one fundamental issue that is crucial to these applications remains theoretically equivocal- the reversible carrier-type transition between n- and p-type conductivities during gas-sensing operations. Here, we give unambiguous and rigorous theoretical analysis in order to explain why and how the oxygen vacancies affect the n-type semiconductors, a-Fe2O3 and Fe doped SnO2 in which they are both electronically and chemically transformed into a p-type semiconductor. Furthermore, this reversible transition also occurs on the oxide surfaces during gas-sensing operation due to physisorbed gas molecules (without any chemical reaction). We make use of the ionization energy theory and its renormalized ionic displacement polarizability functional to reclassify, generalize and to explain the concept of carrier-type transition in solids, and during gas-sensing operation. The origin of such a transition is associated to the change in ionic polarizability and the valence states of cations in the presence of (a) oxygen vacancies and (b) physisorped gas molecules.

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