First-principles analysis of electron transport in BaSnO${}_3$

Abstract

BaSnO${}_3$ (BSO) is a promising transparent conducting oxide (TCO) with reported room-temperature (RT) Hall mobility exceeding 320 cm${}^2$V${}^{-1}$s${}^{-1}$. Among perovskite oxides, it has the highest RT mobility, about 30 times higher than that of the prototypical SrTiO${}_3$. Using first-principles calculations based on hybrid density functional theory, we elucidate the physical mechanisms that govern the mobility by studying the details of LO-phonon and ionized impurity scattering. A careful numerical analysis to obtain converged results within the relaxation-time approximation of Boltzmann transport theory is presented. The $\mathbf{k}$ dependence of the relaxation time is fully taken into account. We find that the high RT mobility in BSO originates not only from a small effective mass, but also from a significant reduction in the phonon scattering rate compared to other perovskite oxides; the origins of this reduction are identified. Ionized impurity scattering influences the total mobility even at RT for dopant densities larger than $5\times 10^{18}$ cm${}^{-3}$, and becomes comparable to LO-phonon scattering for $1\times 10^{20}$ cm${}^{-3}$ doping, reducing the drift mobility from its intrinsic LO-phonon-limited value of $\sim$594 cm${}^2$V${}^{-1}$s${}^{-1}$ to less than 310 cm${}^2$V${}^{-1}$s${}^{-1}$. We suggest pathways to avoid impurity scattering via modulation doping or polar discontinuity doping. We also explicitly calculate the Hall factor and Hall mobility, allowing a direct comparison to experimental reports for bulk and thin films and providing insights into the nature of the dominant mechanisms that limit mobility in state-of-the art samples.

13 pages, 9 figures

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