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DF: Fachverband Dielektrische Festkörper

DF 15: Ferroics - Domains, Domain Walls and Skyrmions III

DF 15.8: Vortrag

Mittwoch, 22. März 2017, 17:15–17:30, WIL B321

Interstitial oxygen as a source of p-type conductivity in RMnO₃ hexagonal manganites — Sandra H. Skjaervø, Espen T. Wefring, Silje K. Nesdal, Nikolai H. Gaukås, Gerhard H. Olsen, Julia Glaum, Thomas Tybell, and •Sverre M. Selbach — NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway

We use a combination of experiments and first principles electronic structure calculations to elucidate the effect of interstitial oxygen anions, Oi, on the electrical and structural properties of h-YMnO₃. Hexagonal manganites, h-RMnO₃ (R = Sc, Y, Ho-Lu) have been intensively studied for their multiferroic properties and 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. Enthalpy stabilized interstitial oxygen anions are here shown to be the main source of p-type electronic conductivity, without reducing the spontaneous ferroelectric polarization [1]. A low energy barrier interstitialcy mechanism is inferred from Density Functional Theory calculations to be the microscopic migration path of Oi. Since the Oi 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.

[1] S. H. Skjaervø, E. T. Wefring, S. K. Nesdal, N. H. Gaukås, G. H. Olsen, J. Glaum, T. Tybell, S. M. Selbach, Nat. Commun. 7, 13745 (2016).