Journal
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 829, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.154499
Keywords
Brannerite; XRD and SEM; Electronic band structures; Degenerate semiconductors; Optical absorption
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We have studied the layered compounds of polycrystalline vanadates CaV2O6 and MnV2O2, synthesized by a conventional solid-state reaction technique, because of their interesting applications such as optoelectronic materials, dielectric ceramics, semiconductors, magnetic candidates, catalytic materials, etc. The crystal phase and structures were analyzed by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD). The detailed surface morphologies were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The temperature dependence of electrical resistivity of these vanadates shows semiconducting nature, which is consistent with their electronic band structures studied by first principles density functional theory (DFT). The energy band gap of CaV2O6 is larger than that of MnV2O2. The dominant contribution to the bottom of the conduction band in the total density of states (TDOS) mainly comes from the V 3d electrons in both vanadates. Indeed, the Fermi level lies in the conduction band rather than in the forbidden region in MnV2O2 indicating the degeneracy of metavanadates. Using Wood-Tauc theory, the calculated optical band gap from the observed absorbance by a UV-Visible spectrophotometer is almost similar with their electronic band gap. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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