Oxygen vacancy induced metal-insulator transition in LaNiO 3

Debolina Misra and Tarun Kumar Kundu ()

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2016, vol. 89, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: First principle calculations were carried out to examine the metal-insulator transition in LaNiO 3 due to changes in oxygen content and consequent alteration of valence state of nickel. The optical properties of all the oxygen deficient LaNiO 3−x compounds were calculated to illustrate the electronic structures of the compounds and the change they undergo during the metal-insulator transition. The metallic nature of LaNiO 3 is characterized by the Drude peak in the optical conductivity spectra and the high reflectivity it exhibits in the low frequency region. The complex dielectric function and the optical conductivity spectra clearly show that, for x=0.25, i.e., LaNiO 2.75 becomes a semiconductor. As x increases further to 0.5, a gap in the optical spectra appears, indicating the insulating nature of LaNiO 2.5 . The insulating state of LaNiO 2.5 is best described by the GW+HSE method which gives a good estimation of the optical gap of the material. The absorption spectra of LaNiO 2.5 clearly reveal that this material is transparent in the low frequency region. This metal-insulator transition is followed by another insulator to semiconductor transition, as x is increased further to 1 i.e., in case of LaNiO 2 . The metal-insulator transition is then explained on the basis of electron localization function calculations, which show the increase in the covalent bonding in the system as the transition to the insulating state sets in. Copyright EDP Sciences, SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016

Keywords: Solid State and Materials (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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