Oxygen ion migration in Li2MnO3 was systematically studied by first-principles calculations. Hole polaron is found effective to lower the migration barrier of oxygen ion.
Influence of Zeeman splitting and thermally excited polaron states on magneto-electrical and magneto-thermal properties of magnetoresistive polycrystalline manganite La_{0.8}Sr_{0.2}MnO_3
The understanding of the Physics underlying the performances of organic spin-valve devices is still incomplete. According to some recent models, spin transport takes place in an impurity band inside the fundamental gap of organic semiconductors. This seems to be confirmed by recent experiments performed with La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$/Alq$_3$/AlO$_x$/Co devices. The reported results suggest a possible correlation between the magnetoresistance and the variable oxygen doping in the Alq$_3$ spacer. In this paper we investigate by means of first-principles calculations the electronic and magnetic…
Polaron Conductivity in $α$-Fe2O3 Quenched by Adsorbed NO2
Science Institute and Faculty of Physical Sciences, Univ. of Iceland(冰岛大学理学院与物理科学学院);Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology(瑞典皇家理工学院应用物理系)
Acceptor-doped perovskite oxides like BaZrO$_3$ are showing great potential as materials for renewable energy technologies where hydrogen acts an energy carrier, such as solid oxide fuel cells and hydrogen separation membranes. While ionic transport in these materials has been investigated intensively, the electronic counterpart has received much less attention and further exploration in this field is required. Here, we use density functional theory (DFT) to study hole polarons and their impact on hole conductivity in Y-doped BaZrO$_3$. Three different approaches have been used to remedy the s…
Revealing Short- and Long-range Li-ion diffusion in Li$_2$MnO$_3$ from finite-temperature dynamical mean field theory
University of Illinois at Chicago(芝加哥伊利诺伊大学);Argonne National Laboratory(阿贡国家实验室);Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory(劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室);University of California Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校)
Electrical-transport characteristics of as-grown and oxygen-reduced La$_{0.7}$Ce$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$ films: calculation of hopping energies, Mn valences, and carrier localization lengths
目前,铈掺杂的LaMnO $_3$被生动地讨论为电子掺杂的对应原型,以充分建立的空穴掺杂的混合价锰氧化物。在此,比较在SrTiO $_3$单晶衬底上生长的不同厚度、CeO $_3$相分离程度和氧缺乏的La $_{0.7}$ Ce $_{0.3}$ MnO $_3$薄膜的电阻-相对电阻-相对电阻。从300~ 90 K的温度(R vs. T)行为。当薄膜厚度在10~ 100 nm范围内变化时,外延应变对电输运的影响很小,而CeO $_2$团簇的存在和氧的缺乏则完全改变了跳跃机制的类型.这是通过拟合各自的\textit{R-T}曲线与三种不同的传输模型(绝热极化子跳跃,莫特可变范围跳跃,埃夫罗斯-什克洛夫斯基可变范围跳跃),这是常用的混合价锰氧化物。几个特征的输运参数,如跳跃能量,载流子局域化长度,以及Mn价从拟合程序推导出来。
We report on high-dimensional quantum dynamical simulations of torsion-induced exciton migration in a single-chain oligothiophene segment comprising twenty repeat units, using a first-principles parametrized Frenkel J-aggregate Hamiltonian. Starting from an initial inter-ring torsional defect, these simulations provide evidence of an ultrafast two-time scale process at low temperatures, involving exciton-polaron formation within tens of femtoseconds, followed by torsional relaxation on a ~300 femtosecond time scale. The second step is the driving force for exciton migration, as initial conjuga…
Multivalent batteries are an energy storage technology with the potential to surpass lithium-ion batteries, however their performance has been limited by the low voltages and poor solid-state ionic mobility of available cathodes. A computational screening approach to identify high-performance multivalent intercalation cathodes among materials that do not contain the working ion of interest has been developed which greatly expands the search space that can be considered for materials discovery. This approach has been applied to magnesium cathodes as a proof of concept and four resulting candida…
As a prototypical Mott insulator with ferromagnetic ordering, YTiO3 (YTO) is of great interest in the study of strong electron correlation effects and orbital ordering. Here we report the first molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth of YTO films, combined with theoretical and experimental characterization of the electronic structure and charge transport properties. The obstacles of YTO MBE growth are discussed and potential routes to overcome them are proposed. DC transport and Seebeck measurements on thin films and bulk single crystals identify p-type Arrhenius transport behavior, with an activa…