Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF SOLIDS
Volume 75, Issue 1, Pages 148-152Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2013.08.015
Keywords
Co3O4 compound; DFT calculations; Cubic normal spinel and antiferromagnetic structure; Optical absorption spectrum
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- CNPq
- FAPITEC
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First principles calculations based on density functional theory have been employed to study the electronic, magnetic and optical properties of Co3O4 in a cubic normal spinel structure. Exchange and correlation effects between electrons were treated by a B3PW91 hybrid functional, which produced better results than others scheme, such as GGA+U or PBE0 hybrid functionals or mBJ semilocal potential. The work focuses on clarifying the nature of the optical absorption bands, which have motivated various theoretical and experimental works in the literature. The calculated optical absorption spectrum was compared with available experimental data. On the basis of this calculated electronic and magnetic structure, the optical absorption peaks (theoretical and experimental) could be satisfactorily explained in terms of d-d charge transfer transitions between both CO2+ -> CO2+ and CO3+ -> CO3+ ions. The calculations also predicted that the crystal field splittings at both octahedral and tetrahedral sites in the Co3O4 compound are of the same magnitude. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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