A DFT study of structural and electronic properties of Zn1−xSbxTe with x = (0.25,0.50,0.75)

Abstract

In the present work, we report the structural and the electronic properties of the alloy [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. Ab initio calculations are based upon the density functional theory with generalized gradient approximation and Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof (PBE) exchange–correlation functional. In our calculations, we found that antimony (Sb) doping in zinc telluride (ZnTe) system introduces some bands which mainly originate from [Formula: see text]- and [Formula: see text]-states of Te and Sb atom and are primarily responsible for [Formula: see text]-type and [Formula: see text]-type conductivity.