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Mangum, John S.; Ke, Sijia; Gish, Melissa K.; Raulerson, Emily K.; Perkins, Craig L.; Neaton, Jeffrey B.; Zakutayev, Andriy; Greenaway, Ann L.
Journal of materials chemistry. A, Materials for energy and sustainability, 02/2024, Volume: 12, Issue: 8Journal Article
Sustainable production of liquid fuels from abundant resources, such as carbon dioxide and water, may be possible through photoelectrochemical processes. Zinc titanium nitride (ZnTiN 2 ) has been recently demonstrated as a potential photoelectrode semiconductor for photoelectrochemical fuel generation due to its ideal bandgap induced by cation disorder, shared crystal structure with established semiconductors, and self-passivating surface oxides under carbon dioxide reduction operating conditions. However, substantial improvements in crystalline quality and optoelectronic properties of ZnTiN 2 are needed to enable such applications. In this work, we investigate the heteroepitaxial growth of ZnTiN 2 on c -plane (001) sapphire substrates. Growth on sapphire improves crystal quality, while growth on sapphire at elevated temperatures (300 °C) yields highly-oriented, single-crystal-like ZnTiN 2 films. When Sn is incorporated during these epitaxial growth conditions, notable improvements in ZnTiN 2 film surface roughness and optoelectronic properties are observed. These improvements are attributed to Sn acting as a surfactant during growth and mitigating unintentional impurities such as O and C. The single-crystal-like, 12% Sn-containing ZnTiN 2 films exhibit a steep optical absorption onset at the band gap energy around 2 eV, electrical resistivity of 0.7 Ω cm, and a carrier mobility of 0.046 cm 2 V −1 s −1 with n-type carrier concentration of 2 × 10 20 cm −3 . Density functional theory calculations reveal that moderate substitution of Sn (12.5% of the cation sites) on energetically-preferred cation sites has negligible impact on the optoelectronic properties of cation-disordered ZnTiN 2 . These results are important steps toward achieving high performance PEC devices based on ZnTiN 2 photoelectrodes with efficient photon absorption and photoexcited carrier extraction.
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