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Thermal effect is one of the most important factors limiting the photoluminescence performances of semiconductor devices. With the increase of temperature, the PL intensity decreases gradually due to the effect of thermal quenching. However, the abnormal negative thermal quenching effect has been found in many semiconductor materials in recent years, e.g. ZnO, BiFeO3, InPBi, etc. This effect is generally considered as the sign of the existence for middle/local energy state in the electron-hole recombination process, which usually needs to be confirmed by the temperature-dependent PL spectra. Here, we report the thermal regulation mechanism of photoluminescence in intrinsic acceptor-rich ZnO (A-ZnO) microtubes grown by the optical vapour supersaturated precipitation method. The grown A-ZnO microtube with a length of 5 mm and diameter of 100 μm has regular hexagonal cross-section morphology. Its optical band gap at room temperature is about 3.30 eV. With the increase of temperature, the PL intensity of A-ZnO microtube exhibits an abnormal behavior from the thermal quenching to the negative thermal quenching and then to the thermal quenching. The thermal quenching effect at 80–200 K is associated with regurgitation/ionization of shallow donor, thermal ionization of free exciton, and conversion of neutral acceptor bound exciton. The negative thermal quenching effect at 200–240 K is associated with thermal excitation of electrons in a deep level trap of 488 meV below the conduction band minimum (CBM). The thermal quenching effect at 240–470 K is related to Shockley-Read-Hall recombination based on the non-radiative recombination center of 628 meV below the CBM. The non-radiative recombination center and trap level are far from the acceptor level of A-ZnO microtube, which may be related to the deep-level defect of oxygen vacancy in the intrinsic A-ZnO microtube. This work establishes the temperature-dependent transition model of photo-generated carriers and reveals the thermal regulation mechanism of PL for the A-ZnO microtubes. It provides a novel platform for designing the high-temperature and high-efficiency ZnO-based photoelectric devices. -
Keywords:
- ZnO /
- photoluminescence /
- thermal quenching /
- negative thermal quenching
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图 1 单根A-ZnO微米管的SEM图：(a)整体; (b)中部; (c)管口
Figure 1. (a) Overview, (b) side-wall view, and (c) close-up view of the A-ZnO microtube by SEM.
图 2 A-ZnO微米管粉末的吸收光谱, 插图为由吸收光谱所得Tauc曲线
Figure 2. The absorbance spectrum of powdered A-ZnO microtube. Inset: Tauc plot.
图 3 (a)A-ZnO微米管在温度为80, 270和470 K时的PL光谱. A-ZnO微米管在不同温度区间内的变温PL光谱: (b) 80−200 K; (c) 200−240 K; (d) 240−470 K
Figure 3. (a) PL spectra of a single A-ZnO microtube at 80, 270, and 470 K, respectively. Temperature-dependent PL spectra of single A-ZnO microtube in different temperature ranges of (b) 80—200 K, (c) 200−240 K, (d) 240−470 K.
图 4 (a) FX→NBE, FA→NBE, DAP发光峰强度随温度的变化及其拟合曲线; (b)FX和FA发光峰位随温度的变化及其拟合曲线
Figure 4. (a) PL intensity of FX→NBE, FA→NBE, DAP emissions as a function of temperature, and their fitting curves; (b) peak energy of FX and FA emissions as a function of temperature, and their fitting curves.
图 5 A-ZnO微米管主要PL发光峰在不同温度区间内的复合行为示意图, 其中Eb为自由激子结合能, 约60 meV
Figure 5. Schematic diagram of recombination behavior for main PL emissions of A-ZnO microtube in different temperature ranges, Eb is free exciton binding energy, about 60 meV.
表 1 不同PL发光峰热效应的拟合活化能
Table 1. Fitting activation energy of thermal effect for different PL emissions.
发光特性 $ {E}_{1}' $ / meV E1 / meV E2 / meV FA→NBE 488 628 57 FX→NBE 431 572 39 DAP 424 570 55 
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[1] Chen X, Wu X, Yue L, Zhu L, Pan W, Qi Z, Shao J 2017 Appl. Phys. Lett. 110 051903
Google Scholar
[2] Prashanthi K, Antić Ž, Thakur G, Dramićanin M D, Thundat T 2018 Phys. Status Solidi RRL 12 1700352
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Google Scholar
[4] Tangi M, Shakfa M K, Mishra P, Li M Y, Chiu M H, Ng T K, Ooi B S 2017 Opt. Mater. Express 7 3697
Google Scholar
[5] Lei L, Xia J, Cheng Y, Wang Y, Bai G, Xia H, Xu S 2018 J. Mater. Chem. C 6 11587
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[7] 秦莉, 张喜田, 梁瑶, 张锷, 高红, 张治国 2006 物理学报 55 3119
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Qin L, Zhang X T, Liang Y, Zhang E, Gao H, Zhang Z G 2006 Acta. Phys. Sin. 55 3119
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Xie X H, Li B H, Zhang Z Z, Liu L, Liu K W, Shan C X, Shen D Z 2019 Acta. Phys. Sin. 68 167802
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Zhang M L, Chen Y H, Zhang C R, Li G P 2019 Acta. Phys. Sin. 68 87101
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