Publication date: May 30, 2019
The electronic properties of the oxygen vacancy and interstitial in amorphous Al2O3 are studied via ab initio molecular dynamics simulations and hybrid functional calculations. Our results indicate that these defects do not occur in amorphous Al2O3, due to structural rearrangements which assimilate the defect structure and cause a delocalization of the associated defect levels. The imbalance of oxygen leads to a nonstoichiometric compound in which the oxygen occurs in the form of O2– ions. Intrinsic oxygen defects are found to be unable to trap excess electrons. For low Fermi energies, the formation of peroxy linkages is found to be favored leading to the capture of holes. The relative +2/0 defect levels occur at 2.5 eV from the valence band.
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O-O_2hole.xyz
MD5md5:ba093a0d312f7b34b679d4b03c1701ab
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10.2 KiB | The relaxed atomic structure of the O-O peroxy linkage induced by the addition of two holes into the bulk model. |
Oi_-2.xyz
MD5md5:a060cd082cfb999cafdc4ecff725490d
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10.2 KiB | The atomic structure of a defect-free substoichiometric oxide obtained after carrying out MD simulations for the bulk model with the addition of an O2- ion. |
am-Al2O3_VO_2.xyz
MD5md5:6e358e93507a3ab00bb03ea0ceac67a7
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10.1 KiB | The atomic structure of a defect-free substoichiometric oxide achieved after performing an annealing cycle using MD simulations for the bulk model with an O2- ion removed. |
am-Al2O3_bulk_model.xyz
MD5md5:82a85d37defb4f66a3afc8e0fdc33d43
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10.4 KiB | The atomic structure of the bulk amorphous Al2O3 model constructed through the melt-and-quench method [D. Colleoni, G. Miceli, and A. Pasquarello, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 211601 (2015)]. This model contains 160 atoms, with the lattice parameters of 11.47, 11.24, and 12.78 angstrom in the x, y and z direction, respectively. |
Oi_0_type1.xyz
MD5md5:23496d60188585deb455eb727c649ac3
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10.2 KiB | The relaxed atomic structure of an O-O peroxy linkage formed upon the insertion of a neutral interstitial oxygen atom. In this configuration, the two O atoms in the peroxy linkage are bonded to different Al atoms. |
Oi_0_type2.xyz
MD5md5:97f00f601b53ab23f394a380e95da02a
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10.2 KiB | The relaxed atomic structure of an O-O peroxy linkage formed upon the insertion of a neutral interstitial oxygen atom. In this configuration, the two O atoms in the peroxy linkage form one bond to the same Al atom. |
README.txt
MD5md5:d0e1200515f0b949abd0d83c4d2fe242
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1.3 KiB | Description of the file contents. |
2019.0026/v1 (version v1) [This version] | May 30, 2019 | DOI10.24435/materialscloud:2019.0026/v1 |