Dresden 2014 – scientific programme

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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 21: Multiferroics II (jointly with DF, DS, KR, TT)

MA 21.13: Talk

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 12:45–13:00, HSZ 04

Coupling of epitaxial strain and point-defect formation in perovskites — •Ulrich Aschauer, Philipp Baumli, and Nicola A. Spaldin — Materials Theory, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Using density functional theory calculations we recently established the existence of a strong coupling between epitaxial strain and the formation energy of oxygen vacancies in the model perovskite CaMnO₃ (Phys. Rev. B. 88, 054111, 2013). Here we investigate the generality of this concept for other oxides including metallic perovskites and also investigate the effect of strain on the formation of cation vacancies. We find that in general the response of the defect profile follows the behavior expected from chemical-expansion arguments, with tensile strain favoring oxygen vacancies and compressive strain favoring cation vacancies. We show, however, that material-specific details of the electronic structure can cause deviations from this trend under both tensile and compressive strain.