Electronic and Optical Properties of VSc2N@C68 Fullerene
- Univ. of Texas at El Paso, TX (United States). Dept. of Physics
Here, we report a detailed investigation of structural, electronic, and spectroscopic properties of VSc2N@C68 endohedral fullerene. First, the candidate structures of the ground state are obtained using a systematic approach in which 900 isomers of endohedral fullerenes were screened for their energetic stability. The stability of some of the most promising isomers was studied using density functional theory at the all-electron level using large polarized Gaussian basis sets. Although the dopant vanadium atom is also in the same charge state as Sc, the doping changes the structure and the spin state from that of Sc3N@C68. The d-orbitals of the V atom lead to a spin state with spin moment of 2 μB for the endohedral fullerene. The spin–orbit coupling strength is, however, weak, leading to vanishingly small zero-field splitting of the spin levels. The ionization energy, electron affinity, and the quasi-particle gap of the most stable isomer are comparable to those of C60. The vibrational frequency analysis shows that the structure is stable. Finally, the infrared, Raman, and optical spectra of the most stable fullerene are calculated, which can aid in identification of the cluster in experiments.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0002168; SC0006818
- OSTI ID:
- 1480441
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, Vol. 120, Issue 49; ISSN 1932-7447
- Publisher:
- American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Electronic structure calculation of vanadium-and scandium-based endohedral fullerenes VSc 2 N@C 2 n (2 n = 70, 76, 78, 80)
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