Manybody GW calculation of the oxygen vacancy in ZnO

Abstract

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations of defect levels in semiconductors based on approximate functionals are subject to considerable uncertainties, in particular due to inaccurate band gap energies. Testing previous correction methods by many-body GW calculations for the O vacancy in ZnO, we find that: (i) The GW quasi-particle shifts of the VO defect states increase the spitting between occupied and unoccupied states due to self-interaction correction, and do not reflect the conduction versus valence band character. (ii) The GW quasi-particle energies of charged defect states require important corrections for supercell finite size effects. (iii) The GW results are robust with respect to the choice of the underlying DFT or hybrid-DFT functional, and the (2+/0) donor transition lies below mid-gap, close to our previous prediction employing rigid band edge shifts.

revision date 02/08/2010

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