用中子发生器上D—D反应的2.5MeV中子辐照Co掺杂ZnO和对照样品纯ZnO单晶。室温下测量了样品的X射线衍射谱、光致发光谱和透射光谱。结果表明,快中了辐照后的纯ZnO单晶中引入了氧空位(Vo)和氧错位(OZn)缺陷,且有少量的锌填隙(Zni)和氧填隙(Oi)缺陷。Co掺杂ZnO中存在的Co以及钴氧化物纳米团簇由于快中子轰击而分解消失。快中子与替代Zn^2+的Co^2+的碰撞导致大量的Co^2+离开ZnO晶格点位,导致Co掺杂ZnO中引入钴填隙杂质和锌空位(VZn)缺陷。中子辐照后的所有样品依然呈纤锌矿结构并沿c轴高度择优取向。表明纯ZnO和掺Co氧化锌半导体材料具有良好的抗辐照性能,在空间器件方面具有应用潜力,且有助于在ZnO点缺陷方面的研究。
Co-doped ZnO and as-grown ZnO single crystals were irradiated by 2.5 MeV neutrons from D-D reaction on a neutron generator, and the structural and optical properties were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), photoluminescence (PL) and optical transmittance at room temperature. The results indicated that a great number of defects of oxygen vacancies (Vo) and antisite oxygen (OZn) were introduced in the as-grown ZnO, and a few defects of interstitial zinc (Zni) and interstitial oxygen (Oi) were introduced after irradiation. The nanoclusters of metallic cobalt and cobalt oxides in the Co-doped ZnO disappeared after the neutron irradiation, and a great many Co^2+ ions substituted for Zn^2+ ions moved away probably from the lattice site due to the fast-neutron collision. The defects of interstitial cobalt impurities and zinc vacancies (VZn) were formed in the Co-doped ZnO irradiated by fast neutrons. The fast-neutron-irradiated samples are still ofwurtzite structure and in c-axis orientation. This work shows that ZnO and Co-doped ZnO semiconductors have great radiation hardness, hence their potential of space applications, and the findings are of help in studying point defects of ZnO.