scholarly journals Structural and electronic properties of LiMnO2 doped with transition metals: A first-principles study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2145 (1) ◽  
pp. 012035
Author(s):  
Nontawat Chaiyaocha ◽  
Worasak Sukkabot

Abstract A spin density functional calculations of structural and electronic properties of LiMnO2 doped with several transition metals (Sc, V and Tc) are reported. The physical properties of LiMnO2 material are sensitive with the transition-metal dopants. Transition metal dopants enhance the lattice parameters and volumes, thus increasing the Li diffusion channel. The computations underscore that d orbitals of transition metals are located around the Fermi level. V doping in LiMnO2 demonstrates the enhancement in the electronic conductivity due to the volumetric expansion. Finally, these results deliver a valuable information for the transition-metal doped LiMnO2 cathode materials to improve the performance of lithium batteries.

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-258
Author(s):  
Bendouma Doumi ◽  
Allel Mokaddem ◽  
Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki ◽  
Miloud Boutaleb ◽  
Abdelkader Tadjer

AbstractIn the present work, we have investigated the structural and electronic properties of TMAl (TM = Fe, Co, and Ni) transition metal aluminides in the B2 structure, using first-principle calculations of the density functional theory (DFT) based on the linearized augmented plane wave method (FP-LAPW) as implemented in the WIEN2k code, in which the energy of exchange and correlation are treated by the generalized gradient approximation (GGA), proposed in 1996 by Perdew, Burke and Ernzerhof (PBE). The ground state properties have been calculated and compared with other calculations, and the electronic structures of all FeAl, CoAl, and NiAl compounds exhibited a metallic behavior. It was depicted that the density of states is characterized by the large hybridization between the s-p (Al) and 3d (Fe, Co, and Ni) states, which creates the pseudogap in the region of anti-bonding states. Moreover, the band structures of FeAl, CoAl, and NiAl are similar to each other and the difference between them is in the energy level of each band relative to the Fermi level.


2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Ram Prasad Sedhain ◽  
Gopi Chandra Kaphle

Transition metal di-chalcogenides (MX2) M=(Mo, W) and X=(S, Se) in bulk state are of great interest due to their diverse applications in the field of modern technology as well as to understand the fundamental aspect of Physics. We performed structural and electronic properties of selected systems using density functional theory implemented in Tight Binding Linear Muffin- tin Orbital (TBLMTO) approach with subsequent refinement. The structural optimization is performed through energy minimization process and lattice parameters of optimized structures for MoS2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2 are found to be 3.20Å, 3.34Å, 3.27Å and 3.34Å respectively, which are within the error bar less than 5% with experimental values. The band gaps for all TMDCs are found to be of indirect types with semiconducting behaviours. The values of band gap of MoS2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2 in bulk state are found to be 1.16eV, 108eV, 1.50eV and 1.29eV respectively which are comparable with experimental and previously calculated data. Due to the symmetric nature of up spin and down spin channels of Density of States (DOS) all the systems selected are found to be non magnetic. However it fully supports the results obtained from band structure calculations. The potential and charge distributions plots support the results. The charge density plots reveals the covalent nature of bond in (100) plane. However (110) plane shows mixed types of bonding.Journal of Institute of Science and TechnologyVolume 22, Issue 1, July 2017, page: 41-50


In the present work, we have studied intercalated Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDC) MTiS2 compounds (M = Cr, Mn, Fe) by Density Functional Theory (DFT) with Generalized Gradient Approximation (GGA). We have computed the structural and electronic properties by using first principle method in QUANTUM ESPRESSO computational code with an ultra-soft pseudopotential. A guest 3d transition metal M (viz; Cr, Mn, Fe) can be easily intercalated in pure transition metal dichalcogenides compound like TiS2. In the present work, the structural optimization, electronic properties like the energy band structure, density of states (DoS), partial or projected density of states (PDoS) and total density of states (TDoS) are reported. The energy band structure of MTiS2 compound has been found overlapping energy bands in the Fermi region. We conclude that the TiS2 intercalated compound has a small band gap while the doped compound with guest 3d-atom has metallic behavior as shown form its overlapped band structure.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (38) ◽  
pp. 8947-8952 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Albar ◽  
U. Schwingenschlögl

Using first principles calculations, we investigate the structural and electronic properties of 3d transition metal doped SnO.


2014 ◽  
Vol 510 ◽  
pp. 33-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.W. Badrudin ◽  
M.S.A. Rasiman ◽  
M.F.M. Taib ◽  
N.H. Hussin ◽  
O.H. Hassan ◽  
...  

Structural and electronic properties of a new fluorine-free cathode material of polyanionichydroxysulfates, LiFeSO4OH withcaminitestructure are studied using first principles density functional theory. From the calculated result, it reveals that antiferromagnetic configuration is more stable compared to ferromagnetic and non-magnetic configuration. Meanwhile, the density of state calculation divulges that this material exhibited large d-d type of band gap and would behave as a Mott-Hubbard insulator. Thus, this behaviour can lead to poor electronic conductivity.


2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (24) ◽  
pp. 1585-1592
Author(s):  
ZHIYONG QIU ◽  
RI-ICHI MURAKAMI

Two series models were developed in order to investigate the gas sensitivity of 3d transition metal-doped zinc oxide (ZnO) materials. Software based on a discrete variation method (DVM) within the framework of density functional theory was used to calculate the electronic structures of the models. It was possible to determine gas sensitivity using the calculated results, from which a relationship between electronic properties and gas sensitivity was formed. The results showed that doping the transition metals greatly affected the gas sensitivity of ZnO -based materials. The main effect was attributed to the change in carrier concentration. On the contrary, the doping of transition metals had a negligible effect on the mobility of ZnO -based materials. Titanium or iron doped- ZnO is thus expected to have the best gas sensitivity of all of the 3d transition metal-doped ZnO materials.


2012 ◽  
Vol 717-720 ◽  
pp. 205-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Ivády ◽  
Bálint Somogyi ◽  
Viktor Zólyomi ◽  
Andreas Gällström ◽  
Nguyen Tien Son ◽  
...  

Relatively little is known about the transition metal defects in silicon carbide (SiC). In this study we applied highly convergent and sophisticated density functional theory (DFT) based methods to investigate important transition metal impurities including titanium (Ti), vanadium (V), niobium (Nb), chromium (Cr), molybdenum (Mo) and tungsten (W) in cubic 3C and hexagonal 4H and 6H polytypes of SiC. We found two classes among the considered transition metal impurities: Ti, V and Cr clearly prefer the Si-substituting configuration while W, Nb, and Mo may fractionally form a complex with carbon vacancy in hexagonal SiC even under thermal equilibrium. If the metal impurity is implanted into SiC or when many carbon impurities exist during the growth of SiC then complex formation between Si-substituting metal impurity and the carbon vacancy should be considered. This complex pair configuration exclusively prefers the hexagonal-hexagonal sites in hexagonal polytypes and may be absent in cubic polytype. We also studied transition metal doped nano 3C-SiC crystals in order to check the effect of the crystal field on the d-orbitals of the metal impurity.


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