Abstract
We investigate the effect of low concentrations of iron on the physical properties of SnS van der Waals crystals grown from the melt. By means of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and photoemission spectroscopy we study Fe-induced defects and observe an electron doping effect in the band structure of the native p-type SnS semiconductor. Atomically resolved and bias dependent STM data of characteristic defects are compared to ab initio density functional theory simulations of vacancy (VS and VSn), Fe substitutional (FeSn), and Fe interstitial (Feint) defects. While native SnS is dominated by acceptor-like VSn vacancies, our results show that Fe preferentially occupies donor-like interstitial Feint sites in close proximity to VSn defects along the high-symmetry c-axis of SnS. The formation of such well-defined coupled (VSn, Feint) defect pairs leads to local compensation of the acceptor-like character of VSn, which is in line with a reduction of p-type carrier concentrations observed in our Hall transport measurements.
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