In order to take advantage of the strong correlation between geometric changes and electronic properties, better understanding of the structure and properties of perovskites doped with paramagnetic transition metal ions is required. Computational characterization of these dopants and calculated hyperfine values provide a guide that can ultimately aid in the interpretation of experimentally obtained electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra. In this study, we perform ab initio calculation of the hyperfine splitting parameter for Sr-substituted Mn2+ in SrTiO3 in various geometries in order to assign experimentally reported EPR peaks to exact dopant structures. Additionally, we calculate the hyperfine parameters for Mn4+ and Mn2+∕4+ with adjacent oxygen vacancy, which remain to be assigned peaks in experimental EPR spectra. Calculation of Ti-substituted Mn is largely hindered by the highly correlated electronic structure; however, it is shown that reasonable hyperfine values for Ti-site defects can be obtained by tuning functional parameters. Overall, this study demonstrates that calculating the hyperfine splitting for a transition metal dopant in a complex oxide is feasible and can provide a fingerprint for different geometries in equivalently defected systems.
A better understanding
of amorphous aluminum oxide’s structure
and electronic properties is obtained through combined experimental
and computational approaches. Grazing incidence X-ray scattering measurements
were carried out on aluminum oxide thin films grown using thermal
atomic layer deposition. The corresponding pair distribution functions
(PDFs) showed structures similar to previously reported PDFs of solid-state
amorphous alumina and molten alumina. Structural models based on crystalline
alumina polymorphs (PDFgui) and amorphous alumina (molecular dynamics,
MD) were examined for structural comparisons to the experimental PDF
data. Smaller MD models were optimized and verified against larger
models to allow for quantum chemical electronic structure calculations.
The electronic structure of the amorphous alumina models yields additional
insight into the band structure and electronic defects present in
amorphous alumina that are not present in crystalline samples.
The rich chemistry of the SrTiO3 is often modified, intentionally or unintentionally, through the inclusion of defects and dopants. Much computational effort using periodic boundary DFT has been dedicated towards...
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