Abstract
ABC2 chalcopyrite compounds are receiving increasing attention recently, and there are many researches of B-site or C-site doping. The current work mainly redresses the effects of A-site doping. The electronic structures and optical properties of Cu1-xAgxInTe2 (x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1) compounds have been investigated by the first-principles approach based on density functional theory (DFT). Cu1-xAgxInTe2 compounds are direct band-gap semiconductors, and the calculated band gaps are respectively 1.128, 1.086, 1.053, 1.029 and 1.01 eV, which coincide well with the experimental results. The Cu1-xAgxInTe2 monocrystals with optical anisotropies have the potential applications in the fields of second harmonic generation and optical parametric oscillator. The polycrystalline Cu1-xAgxInTe2 compounds have high absorption and reflection coefficients. Doping Ag atoms can further increase the photoconductivities of Cu1-xAgxInTe2 compounds. Besides, CuInTe2, Cu0.25Ag0.75InTe2 and AgInTe2 compounds have high absorption capacities and photoconductivities in the visible light region, promising them great potentials to be photoelectric materials.
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