Revealing chemical ordering in Pt–Co nanoparticles using electronic structure calculations and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (42) ◽  
pp. 28298-28310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gábor Kovács ◽  
Sergey M. Kozlov ◽  
Iva Matolínová ◽  
Mykhailo Vorokhta ◽  
Vladimír Matolín ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Structure ◽  
Photoelectron Spectroscopy ◽  
Shell Structure ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Electronic Structure Calculations ◽  
Optimization Method ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Chemical Ordering ◽  
Co Nanoparticles ◽  
Structure Calculations

PtYCo1−Y-core@Co-rich-subsurface@Pt-shell structure is identified in several nm large Pt–Co particles using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and an optimization method based on density-functional calculations.

Magnetic Ground State and Electronic Structure Calculations of PbMnO3 Using DFT

2014 ◽  
Vol 895 ◽  
pp. 420-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sathya Sheela Subramanian ◽  
Baskaran Natesan
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Structure ◽  
Band Structure ◽  
Fermi Level ◽  
Ground State ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Electronic Structure Calculations ◽  
Magnetic Ground State ◽  
Electronic Band ◽  
Structure Calculations ◽  
Centrosymmetric Structure

Structural optimization, magnetic ground state and electronic structure calculations of tetragonal PbMnO3have been carried out using local density approximation (LDA) implementations of density functional theory (DFT). Structural optimizations were done on tetragonal P4mm (non-centrosymmetric) and P4/mmm (centrosymmetric) structures using experimental lattice parameters and our results indicate that P4mm is more stable than P4/mmm. In order to determine the stable magnetic ground state of PbMnO3, total energies for different magnetic configurations such as nonmagnetic (NM), ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) were computed for both P4mm and P4/mmm structures. The total energy results reveal that the FM non-centrosymmetric structure is found to be the most stable magnetic ground state. The electronic band structure, density of states (DOS) and the electron localization function (ELF) were calculated for the stable FM structure. ELF revealed the distorted non-centrosymmetric structure. The band structure and DOS for the majority spins of FM PbMnO3showed no band gap at the Fermi level. However, a gap opens up at the Fermi level in minority spin channel suggesting that it could be a half-metal and a potential spintronic candidate.

Crystal structure characterization and electronic structure of a rare-earth-containing Zintl phase in the Yb–Al–Sb family: Yb3AlSb3

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rongqing Shang ◽  
An T. Nguyen ◽  
Allan He ◽  
Susan M. Kauzlarich
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Electronic Structure ◽  
Rare Earth ◽  
Electronic Structure Calculations ◽  
Structure Characterization ◽  
Charge Balance ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Zintl Phase ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Structure Calculations

A rare-earth-containing compound, ytterbium aluminium antimonide, Yb3AlSb3 (Ca3AlAs3-type structure), has been successfully synthesized within the Yb–Al–Sb system through flux methods. According to the Zintl formalism, this structure is nominally made up of (Yb2+)3[(Al1−)(1b – Sb2−)2(2b – Sb1−)], where 1b and 2b indicate 1-bonded and 2-bonded, respectively, and Al is treated as part of the covalent anionic network. The crystal structure features infinite corner-sharing AlSb4 tetrahedra, [AlSb2Sb2/2]6−, with Yb2+ cations residing between the tetrahedra to provide charge balance. Herein, the synthetic conditions, the crystal structure determined from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data, and electronic structure calculations are reported.

Identifying the catalytically active sites on the layered tri-chalcogenide compounds CoPS3 and NiPS3 for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khorsed Alam ◽  
Tisita Das ◽  
Sudip Chakraborty ◽  
Prasenjit Sen
Keyword(s):  
Density Functional Theory ◽  
Electronic Structure ◽  
Hydrogen Evolution ◽  
Hydrogen Evolution Reaction ◽  
Active Sites ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Electronic Structure Calculations ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Catalytically Active ◽  
Structure Calculations

Electronic structure calculations based on density functional theory are used to identify the catalytically active sites for the hydrogen evolution reaction on single layers of the two transition metal tri-chalcogenide...

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