Abstract

Zinc vacancies have been incorporated in ZnO via (2 × 2) surface reconstruction during the epitaxy growth. Evolution of in situ reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) patterns indicate Zn-polar surface (2 × 2) reconstruction was realized under extreme O-rich conditions. Atom sized triangular pits and islands were presented by the high resolution scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images, which stand for a single Zn vacancy per (2 × 2) surface unit cell. The neutral acceptor-bound exciton (A0,X), peak located at 3.344 eV, and red luminescence (RL), maximum emission intensity at ~1.76 eV, which related to Zn vacancy, have been studied by variable-temperature/power steady-state photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy.

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