期刊
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF SOLIDS
卷 168, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2022.110822
关键词
Spinel; Plasmonic; Doping; Oxide; Defect
资金
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Directed Research and Development Program [20200407 ER]
- U.S. Department of Energy [89233218CNA000001]
This study investigates the doping mechanisms of spinel-structured oxide materials using first-principles calculations. It finds that Ga2FeO4 and Cd2SnO4 can be doped by cation antisites, while Fe3O4 easily forms cation vacancies. By controlling the chemical potentials of different species, the defect concentration in these materials can be widely tuned. The less dopable nature of Al2FeO4 highlights the importance of careful design based on factors such as cation radius.
Many optical devices can achieve enhanced performance at small scales by exploiting the surface plasmon resonance. Such a plasmonic material must have a large free carrier concentration. Although metals meet this criterion, their plasmon resonance cannot be chemically tuned into the infrared by varying the carrier concentration. By contrast, semiconducting oxides allow this tuning, and several spinel-structured oxides have shown plasmon resonance due to the easy dopability of spinels. This work uses first-principles calculations to identify the doping mechanism of these spinels, finding that Ga2FeO4 and Cd2SnO4 can be doped by cation antisites while Fe3O4 easily forms cation vacancies. In all three cases, the defect concentration can be tuned widely by controlling the chemical potentials of the different species. The chemically related Al2FeO4 is predicted to be much less dopable, indicating the need for careful design based on cation radius and other chemical factors to achieve good plasmonic performance, even in families such as spinels which have many dopable members.
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