Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 79, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.035101
Keywords
aluminium compounds; chromium; copper compounds; density functional theory; doping; electronic density of states; oxidation; strongly correlated electron systems; valence bands; X-ray photoelectron spectra
Funding
- Science Foundation Ireland [06/IN.1/I92]
- EPSRC-GB [GR/S94148]
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The geometries and electronic structures of CuAl1-xCrxO2 have been investigated using density-functional theory with on-site corrections for strongly correlated systems (GGA+U) for x=0,1/2,1. Al is found to be well described within the ionic model, with a valence charge corresponding to a +3 oxidation state. Substituting Cr for Al is predicted to increase the density of states at the top of the valence band, in agreement with experimental x-ray photoemission spectroscopy data. Analysis of atom-projected densities of states and valence charges suggests that this is due to increased covalency between Cr and O; the valence charge for O in the Cu-O-(Al,Cr) subunits changes from -1.74 to similar to-1.25 when Cr replaces Al. This produces an indirect oxygen-mediated change to the Cu d states.
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