Design of ternary alkaline-earth metal Sn(II) oxides with potential good p-type conductivity
Abstract
Oxides with good p-type conductivity have been long sought after to achieve high performance all-oxide optoelectronic devices. Divalent Sn(II) based oxides are promising candidates because of their rather dispersive upper valence bands caused by the Sn-5s/O-2p anti-bonding hybridization. There are so far few known Sn(II) oxides being p-type conductive suitable for device applications. Here, we present via first-principles global optimization structure searches a material design study for a hitherto unexplored Sn(II)-based system, ternary alkaline-earth metal Sn(II) oxides in the stoichiometry of MSn2O3 (M = Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba). We identify two stable compounds of SrSn2O3 and BaSn2O3, which can be stabilized by Sn-rich conditions in phase stability diagrams. Their structures follow the Zintl behaviour and consist of basic structural motifs of SnO3 tetrahedra. Unexpectedly they show distinct electronic properties with band gaps ranging from 1.90 (BaSn2O3) to 3.15 (SrSn2O3) eV, and hole effective masses ranging from 0.87 (BaSn2O3) to above 6.0 (SrSn2O3) m0. Further exploration of metastable phases indicates a wide tunability of electronic properties controlled by the details of the bonding between the basic structural motifs. Lastly, this suggests further exploration of alkaline-earth metal Sn(II) oxides for potential applications requiring good p-type conductivity such as transparent conductors and photovoltaicmore »
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO (United States)
- Jilin Univ., Changchun (China)
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- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1263854
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Materials Chemistry C
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 20; Journal ID: ISSN 2050-7526
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Du, Mao -Hua, Singh, David J., Zhang, Lijun, Li, Yuwei, Xu, Qiaoling, Ma, Yanming, and Zheng, Weitao. Design of ternary alkaline-earth metal Sn(II) oxides with potential good p-type conductivity. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1039/C6TC00996D.
Du, Mao -Hua, Singh, David J., Zhang, Lijun, Li, Yuwei, Xu, Qiaoling, Ma, Yanming, & Zheng, Weitao. Design of ternary alkaline-earth metal Sn(II) oxides with potential good p-type conductivity. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6TC00996D
Du, Mao -Hua, Singh, David J., Zhang, Lijun, Li, Yuwei, Xu, Qiaoling, Ma, Yanming, and Zheng, Weitao. 2016.
"Design of ternary alkaline-earth metal Sn(II) oxides with potential good p-type conductivity". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6TC00996D. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1263854.
@article{osti_1263854,
title = {Design of ternary alkaline-earth metal Sn(II) oxides with potential good p-type conductivity},
author = {Du, Mao -Hua and Singh, David J. and Zhang, Lijun and Li, Yuwei and Xu, Qiaoling and Ma, Yanming and Zheng, Weitao},
abstractNote = {Oxides with good p-type conductivity have been long sought after to achieve high performance all-oxide optoelectronic devices. Divalent Sn(II) based oxides are promising candidates because of their rather dispersive upper valence bands caused by the Sn-5s/O-2p anti-bonding hybridization. There are so far few known Sn(II) oxides being p-type conductive suitable for device applications. Here, we present via first-principles global optimization structure searches a material design study for a hitherto unexplored Sn(II)-based system, ternary alkaline-earth metal Sn(II) oxides in the stoichiometry of MSn2O3 (M = Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba). We identify two stable compounds of SrSn2O3 and BaSn2O3, which can be stabilized by Sn-rich conditions in phase stability diagrams. Their structures follow the Zintl behaviour and consist of basic structural motifs of SnO3 tetrahedra. Unexpectedly they show distinct electronic properties with band gaps ranging from 1.90 (BaSn2O3) to 3.15 (SrSn2O3) eV, and hole effective masses ranging from 0.87 (BaSn2O3) to above 6.0 (SrSn2O3) m0. Further exploration of metastable phases indicates a wide tunability of electronic properties controlled by the details of the bonding between the basic structural motifs. Lastly, this suggests further exploration of alkaline-earth metal Sn(II) oxides for potential applications requiring good p-type conductivity such as transparent conductors and photovoltaic absorbers.},
doi = {10.1039/C6TC00996D},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1263854},
journal = {Journal of Materials Chemistry C},
issn = {2050-7526},
number = 20,
volume = 4,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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