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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.235502
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We investigate using first-principles calculations the atomic structure of the orthorhombic phase of Ta2O5. Although this structure has been studied for decades, the correct structural model is controversial owing to the complication of structural disorder. We identify a new low-energy high-symmetry structural model, where all Ta and O atoms have the correct formal oxidation states of +5 and -2, respectively, and the experimentally reported triangular lattice symmetry of the Ta sublattice appears dynamically at finite temperatures. To understand the complex atomic structure of the Ta2O3 plane, a triangular graph-paper representation is devised and used alongside oxidation state analysis to reveal infinite variations of the low-energy structural model. The structural disorder of Ta2O5 observed in experiments is attributed to the intrinsic structural variations, and oxygen vacancies that drive the collective relaxation of the O sublattice.
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