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Interstitial oxygen as a source of p-type conductivity in hexagonal manganites.

ABSTRACT: Hexagonal manganites, h-RMnO₃ (R=Sc, Y, Ho-Lu), have been intensively studied for their multiferroic properties, magnetoelectric coupling, topological defects and electrically conducting domain walls. Although point defects strongly affect the conductivity of transition metal oxides, the defect chemistry of h-RMnO₃ has received little attention. We use a combination of experiments and first principles electronic structure calculations to elucidate the effect of interstitial oxygen anions, O_i, on the electrical and structural properties of h-YMnO₃. Enthalpy stabilized interstitial oxygen anions are shown to be the main source of p-type electronic conductivity, without reducing the spontaneous ferroelectric polarization. A low energy barrier interstitialcy mechanism is inferred from Density Functional Theory calculations to be the microscopic migration path of O_i. Since the O_i content governs the concentration of charge carrier holes, controlling the thermal and atmospheric history provides a simple and fully reversible way of tuning the electrical properties of h-RMnO₃.

SUBMITTER: Skjærvo SH

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5150987 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Interstitial oxygen as a source of p-type conductivity in hexagonal manganites.

Skjærvø Sandra H SH Wefring Espen T ET Nesdal Silje K SK Gaukås Nikolai H NH Olsen Gerhard H GH Glaum Julia J Tybell Thomas T Selbach Sverre M SM

Nature communications 20161207

Hexagonal manganites, h-RMnO<sub>3</sub> (R=Sc, Y, Ho-Lu), have been intensively studied for their multiferroic properties, magnetoelectric coupling, topological defects and electrically conducting domain walls. Although point defects strongly affect the conductivity of transition metal oxides, the defect chemistry of h-RMnO<sub>3</sub> has received little attention. We use a combination of experiments and first principles electronic structure calculations to elucidate the effect of interstitial ...[more]

PMID: 27924812

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