Transition metal-doped SrTiO3: when does a tiny chemical impact have such a great structural response?

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1039/d4tc00180j" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1039/d4tc00180j</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4tc00180j" target="_blank" >10.1039/d4tc00180j</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Transition metal-doped SrTiO3: when does a tiny chemical impact have such a great structural response?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The effect of doping on the chemical and physical properties of semiconductors, alloys, ferroelectrics, glasses, and other substances has been a classic topic in materials science for centuries. Strontium titanate, SrTiO3, is an archetypal perovskite of interest for both fundamental science as quantum paraelectric and numerous outstanding physical properties and applications, including dielectrics, tunable microwave and photovoltaic devices, superconductors, thermoelectrics, potential multiferroics. Its chemical doping with transition metals leads to new functionalities, but intrinsic mechanisms of structural responses, activated by impurities, have not been systematically investigated. Herein, we present the results of a comparative study of the crystal structure, vibrational spectra, and dielectric properties of SrTiO3:M (M = Mn, Ni, and Fe, 2 at%) single crystals. It is shown that impurities constitute a different tendency to off-centering and the formation of dipoles: Mn and Fe atoms are shifted from the center of the oxygen octahedron, while Ni atoms remain on-centered. As a result, small chemical doping has a dramatic effect on the dielectric response through various structural mechanisms, including the pseudo Jahn-Teller effect, the first-order Jahn-Teller effect, and defect-induced distortion. These findings open up fundamentally new possibilities for the practical solution of a difficult problem: controlling the dielectric responses of quantum paraelectrics by choosing the type of chemical additive.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Transition metal-doped SrTiO3: when does a tiny chemical impact have such a great structural response?

Popis výsledku anglicky

The effect of doping on the chemical and physical properties of semiconductors, alloys, ferroelectrics, glasses, and other substances has been a classic topic in materials science for centuries. Strontium titanate, SrTiO3, is an archetypal perovskite of interest for both fundamental science as quantum paraelectric and numerous outstanding physical properties and applications, including dielectrics, tunable microwave and photovoltaic devices, superconductors, thermoelectrics, potential multiferroics. Its chemical doping with transition metals leads to new functionalities, but intrinsic mechanisms of structural responses, activated by impurities, have not been systematically investigated. Herein, we present the results of a comparative study of the crystal structure, vibrational spectra, and dielectric properties of SrTiO3:M (M = Mn, Ni, and Fe, 2 at%) single crystals. It is shown that impurities constitute a different tendency to off-centering and the formation of dipoles: Mn and Fe atoms are shifted from the center of the oxygen octahedron, while Ni atoms remain on-centered. As a result, small chemical doping has a dramatic effect on the dielectric response through various structural mechanisms, including the pseudo Jahn-Teller effect, the first-order Jahn-Teller effect, and defect-induced distortion. These findings open up fundamentally new possibilities for the practical solution of a difficult problem: controlling the dielectric responses of quantum paraelectrics by choosing the type of chemical additive.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10302 - Condensed matter physics (including formerly solid state physics, supercond.)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

ISSN

2050-7526

e-ISSN

2050-7534

Svazek periodika

12

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

22

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

8105-8118

Kód UT WoS článku

001229774100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85194045512