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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik
O 32: Oxides and Insulators: Clean Surfaces
O 32.6: Talk
Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 14:15–14:30, MA 042
Electronic structure and thermodynamic stability of cubic LaxSr1−xMnO3 (001) surfaces: First-principles calculations by means of hybrid density-functional theory — •Sergejs Piskunovs1, Eckhard Spohr1, and Timo Jacob2 — 1Lehrstuhl fuer Theoretische Chemie, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen, S05 V06 E15, Universitaetsstr. 5, D-45141 Essen, Germany — 2Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
Surface properties of LaxSr1−xMnO3 (LSM) are of high scientific and technological interest due to potential application of these materials in magnetoresistive devices, spintronics, and high-temperature fuel cells. Using the hybrid exchange-correlation functional within density functional theory, we calculated the electronic structure for a wide range of cubic LSM(001) surfaces at low doping x∼ 1/8. The layered antiferromagnetic structure is found to be the most energetically favorable for all LSM(001) surfaces under study. Stability of the considered LSM surfaces has been predicted by means of the atomistic thermodynamics. Our calculations show that segregation of Sr at La(Sr)-terminated surface does not lead to its stabilization and thus is thermodynamically unlikely. On the other hand, MnO2-terminated LSM(001) can be stabilized through adsorption of atomic oxygen atop of Mn sites.