Ab initio calculation of magnetic properties in B, Al, C, Si, N, P and As-doped rutile TiO2

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (30) ◽  
pp. 1750227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Homnath Luitel ◽  
Dirtha Sanyal

The ferromagnetic (FM) ordering in rutile TiO2 has been theoretically studied by substituting different [Formula: see text]-block elements (B, Al, C, Si, N, P and As) doped at oxygen site (B[Formula: see text], Al[Formula: see text], C[Formula: see text], Si[Formula: see text], N[Formula: see text], P[Formula: see text] and As[Formula: see text]) as well as at titanium site. Ab initio calculations in the frame work of density functional theory indicates that the [Formula: see text]-block elements (B, C, Al, Si, N, P and As) when substituting the oxygen site give significant amount of magnetic moment, but induce zero magnetic moment in case of substitution at Ti site. Spin–spin interaction for (Ti[Formula: see text]O[Formula: see text]X)2 with X = B, Al, C, Si, N, P and As system has also been studied with two different doping distances. Among all the possibilities, carbon substitution at oxygen site (C[Formula: see text]) results the most stable FM ordering in rutile TiO2.

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1148-1152 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Sarkar ◽  
D. Sanyal ◽  
Palash Nath ◽  
Mahuya Chakrabarti ◽  
S. Pal ◽  
...  

Room temperature ferromagnetic ordering has been observed in polycrystalline SnO2. Defect characterization by positron annihilation technique and ab initio calculation indicates that tin vacancies are mainly responsible for inducing magnetic moment in oxygen irradiate SnO2.


2003 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. 2322-2334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Vianello ◽  
Zvonimir B. Maksić

The electronic and energetic properties of thymine (1) and 2-thiothymine (2) and their neutral and positively charged radicals are considered by a combined ab initio and density functional theory approach. It is conclusively shown that ionization of 1 and 2 greatly facilitates deprotonation of the formed radical cations thus making the proton transfer between charged and neutral precursor species thermodynamically favourable. The adiabatic ionization potential of 1 and 2 are analysed. It appears that ADIP(1) is larger than ADIP(2) by 10 kcal/mol, because of greater stability of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of the former. It is also shown beyond any doubt that the spin density in neutral and cationic radical of 2 is almost exclusively placed on the σ-3p AO of sulfur implying that these two systems represent rather rare sigma-radicals. In contrast, the spin density of radicals of 1 is distributed over their π-network.


2012 ◽  
Vol 717-720 ◽  
pp. 415-418
Author(s):  
Yoshitaka Umeno ◽  
Kuniaki Yagi ◽  
Hiroyuki Nagasawa

We carry out ab initio density functional theory calculations to investigate the fundamental mechanical properties of stacking faults in 3C-SiC, including the effect of stress and doping atoms (substitution of C by N or Si). Stress induced by stacking fault (SF) formation is quantitatively evaluated. Extrinsic SFs containing double and triple SiC layers are found to be slightly more stable than the single-layer extrinsic SF, supporting experimental observation. Effect of tensile or compressive stress on SF energies is found to be marginal. Neglecting the effect of local strain induced by doping, N doping around an SF obviously increase the SF formation energy, while SFs seem to be easily formed in Si-rich SiC.


1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 502-503
Author(s):  
Branko S. Jursic

High level ab initio and density functional theory studies are performed on highly protonated methane species.


Author(s):  
Alberto Rodríguez-Fernández ◽  
Laurent Bonnet ◽  
Pascal Larrégaray ◽  
Ricardo Díez Muiño

The dissociation process of hydrogen molecules on W(110) was studied using density functional theory and classical molecular dynamics.


Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shashikant Kumar ◽  
David Codony ◽  
Irene Arias ◽  
Phanish Suryanarayana

We study the flexoelectric effect in fifty-four select atomic monolayers using ab initio Density Functional Theory (DFT). Specifically, considering representative materials from each of Group III monochalcogenides, transition metal dichalcogenides...


1999 ◽  
Vol 597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Trohalaki ◽  
Robert J. Zellmer ◽  
Ruth Pachter

AbstractSpangler and He [1,2] have shown that dithienyl polyenes form extremely stable bipolaronic dications when oxidatively doped in solution. Previous theoretical studies applied empirical methods to predict bipolaronic enhancement of hyperpolarizabilities for simple polyenes [3,4]. Here, we employ density functional theory to optimize the gas-phase molecular conformations of neutral, cationic, and dicationic forms of a series of dithienyl polyenes, where the number of ethene units, N, is varied from 1–5. Ab initio Hartree-Fock, generalized valence bond, configuration interaction, and Møller-Plesset calculations demonstrate that the dications are farily well described with a closed shell and therefore have little biradicaloid character. Second hyperpolarizabilities, γ, are subsequently calculated using ab initio Hartree-Fock theory and a finite field methodology. As expected, γ increases with the number of ethene units for a given molecular charge. The cations also show the largest increase in γ with N. For a given value of N, the cations display the largest γ values. However, if we treat the dication as a triplet, which might be present in solution, then it displays the largest γ.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (104) ◽  
pp. 102264-102271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjeev K. Gupta ◽  
Deobrat Singh ◽  
Kaptansinh Rajput ◽  
Yogesh Sonvane

The structural stability and electronic properties of the adsorption characteristics of several toxic gas molecules (NH3, SO2 and NO2) on a germanene monolayer were investigated using density functional theory (DFT) based on an ab initio method.


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