ultraviolet-range devices 286
P-MBE see plasma-assisted molecular beam
epitaxy
p-n junctions
electrical properties 61
fundamental properties 22
GaN/ZnO heteroepitaxy 253–5, 257
native point defects 129–30
ultraviolet-range devices 286, 325
p-type semiconductors
acceptor states 70–5
band gap engineering 19, 22
dopability 13–17, 22
electrical properties 61–2, 64–6
fundamental properties 2, 13–19
GaN/ZnO heteroepitaxy 252, 256–58
historical development 61–2
impurities and native defects 113, 118,
120–21, 129–31, 145, 150–3, 164
photoconductivity 77–8
room temperature stimulated
emission 265–6, 281–2, 347
Schottky barriers and ohmic
contacts 17–19, 25
Schottky contacts 89
ultraviolet-range devices 286, 325
palladium/zinc oxide diodes 89, 94, 96–8,
102–3, 105, 110
PAS see positron annihilation spectroscopy
Paschen–Back limit 8
PC see photoconductivity
persistent photoconductivity (PPC) 76–7,
293–5
phosphorus doping
electrical properties 73–4
impurities and native defects 130, 152
ultraviolet-range devices 291
photo-Hall analysis 288
photoconductive detectors 286, 297–301
photoconductive wireless UV detectors
(UV-SAW) 286, 305–14, 325
hybrid ZnO/LiNbO
3
photodetectors 311–14
multilayer ZnO photodetectors 308–11
principles 305–8
photoconductivity (PC) 76–78
gain in ZnO nanowires 318–3
negative 295–6
persistent 293–5
ultraviolet-range devices 288–96, 318–23
photoluminescence (PL)
bound excitons 39, 44
free-carrier screening and band gap
renormalization 53–6
free excitons 29–31, 38
GaN/ZnO heteroepitaxy 242–9, 261–2
heterovalent heterostructures 22
hydrothermal growth methods 211, 213–16
impurities and native defects 136–7, 140–4,
146–8, 151–3, 160–2
mechanisms of ZnO and GaN 46–50
room temperature stimulated emission 275,
334–6, 338–42
two polar faces of ZnO 36–8
ultraviolet-range devices 294
vapor growth methods 178
physical vapor deposition 279–80
physical vapor transport (PVT) 171–4
piezoelectric surfaces 1, 306–9, 325
PL see photoluminescence
plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy
(plasma-MBE)
band gap engineering 20–1
room temperature stimulated
emission 269–270, 272, 274
ultraviolet-range devices 317
platinum/zinc oxide diodes 87–89, 94,
105, 110
PLD see pulsed laser vapor deposition
polar-optical mode scattering 64
polariton lasers 259, 261, 282
polarity of ZnO 102–3
polarization effects 39–40
polishing methods 215–17
polycrystalline GaN films 223, 232–3
polycrystalline ZnO films
fundamental properties 1, 25
hydrothermal growth methods 191
room temperature stimulated
emission 276–7, 278–9
ultraviolet-range devices 288, 290–91,
297, 301
positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS) 68,
71, 105
powder lasers 276–7, 278–9
PPC see persistent photoconductivity
pulsed laser vapor deposition (PLD)
GaN/ZnO heteroepitaxy 222–4, 228–9,
233–4, 250, 255–8
room temperature stimulated emission 277
Index 359