“…Thus, for the ZnO microrods sample, studied in this paper, the I λ (NBE/I λ (DLE) ≈ 0.01, i. e. DLE recombination significantly dominates over the NBE emission in the RT CL. Several different hypotheses have been proposed to explain the origin of the visible emission in ZnO, such as singly ionized oxygen vacancies [26][27][28][29], antisite oxygen [30], oxygen vacancies, zinc interstitials [31] and impurities [32,33]. However, the origin of the visible emission is still rather controversial issue in ZnO.…”