Tin dioxide (SnO2), the most stable oxide of tin, is a metal oxide semiconductor that finds its
use in a number of applications due to its interesting energy band gap that is easily tunable …

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a fascinating wide band gap semiconductor material with many
properties that make it widely studied in the material science, physics, chemistry …

Renewable energy technology has been considered as a “MUST” option to lower the use of
fossil fuels for industry and daily life. Designing critical and sophisticated materials is of great …

Point defects and impurities strongly affect the physical properties of materials and have a
decisive impact on their performance in applications. First-principles calculations have …

This paper presents a compact survey of the various material schemes and device structures
that have been explored in the quest toward developing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based …

In the past ten years we have witnessed a revival of, and subsequent rapid expansion in, the
research on zinc oxide (ZnO) as a semiconductor. Being initially considered as a substrate …

The semiconductor ZnO has gained substantial interest in the research community in part
because of its large exciton binding energy (60 meV) which could lead to lasing action …

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a wide band gap semiconductor with potential applications in
optoelectronics, transparent electronics, and spintronics. The high efficiency of UV emission …

In both light emitting devices such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), and light absorbing
devices such as solar cells (also photodetectors), which are gaining considerable interest for …

The optical properties of excitonic recombinations in bulk, n‐type ZnO are investigated by
photoluminescence (PL) and spatially resolved cathodoluminescence (CL) measurements …