Understanding the effects of Cr doping in rutile TiO2 by DFT calculations and X-ray spectroscopy

Autor: G. Cristian Vásquez, David Maestre, Ana Cremades, Julio Ramírez-Castellanos, Elena Magnano, Silvia Nappini, Smagul Zh. Karazhanov
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-26728-3
Popis: Abstract The effects of Cr on local environment and electronic structure of rutile TiO2 are studied combining theoretical and experimental approaches. Neutral and negatively charged substitutional Cr impurities CrTi 0 and CrTi 1− as well as Cr-oxygen vacancy complex 2CrTi + VO are studied by the density functional theory (DFT) within the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) of Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) functional. Experimental results based on X-Ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) performed on Cr doped TiO2 at the Synchrotron facility were compared to the theoretical results. It is shown that the electrons of the oxygen vacancy tend to be localized at the t 2g states of the Cr ions in order to reach the stable oxidation state of Cr3+. Effects of Cr on crystal field (CF) and structural distortions in the rutile TiO2 cell were analyzed by the DFT calculations and XAS spectra revealing that the CF and tetragonal distortions in TiO2 are very sensitive to the concentration of Cr.
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