Abstract:
he systematic trends of structural and electronic properties of ZnO depending on the varied Zn atomic location in the zaxis were studied by the planewave pseudopotential density functional theory (DFT) method with the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and Perdew Wang (1991) basis for the exchangecorrelation potential. The optimized lattice parameters and equilibrium structure are in good agreement with available theoretical values and experimental data. The predicted ZnO crystal structure and properties dependence on Zn atomic sites were studied for the first time. Our results show that the ZnO lattice will be distorted as Zn atom moves to different location in the zaxis; furthermore, analysis of calculated results, comprising of energy band, density of state (DOS), electronic density, Mulliken charge population etc., show that the bond length of Zn—O will be decreased due to the increased Zn atomic location in the zaxis (0 to 0.1), and in the energy range of -8.0 to -0.5 eV, the interaction seems stronger as the stronger hybridized caused by the 3d electron of Zn and 2p electron of O, as the result of the changed Zn atomic location from 0 to 0.1, the resulted partial electrons of 2p of O atom will be shifted to the lower zone and the energy gap will be broadened.