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Volume 114, Number 3, May 2016
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Article Number | 37011 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/114/37011 | |
Published online | 01 June 2016 |
Vacancy-induced in-gap states in sodium tungsten bronzes: Density functional investigations
Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata Mohanpur 741246, Nadia, India
Received: 10 March 2016
Accepted: 16 May 2016
We have performed extensive ab-initio self-consistent electronic-structure calculations on WO3 and NaWO3 with single- and double-oxygen-vacancy defects within the framework of density functional theory. Our calculated density of states reveals that the in-gap states in WO3 and NaWO3 are the consequence of oxygen vacancies in the system. The evolution of the induced states occurs from the unpaired electrons donated by the oxygen vacancy. We found that the energy positions of the in-gap states are sensitive to the oxygen vacancy concentrations. The in-gap states in NaWO3 are formed close to the valence band, which are pushed towards the conduction band with the increase in oxygen vacancies, whereas the states are formed mostly in the mid-gap region in the WO3 system. Our finding can now well explain the discrepancy in experimental band dispersion measurements from ARPES with that of WO3 and NaWO3 band calculations.
PACS: 71.15.Mb – Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections / 61.72.jd – Vacancies / 61.72.-y – Defects and impurities in crystals; microstructure
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