Ab initio simulations on charged interstitial oxygen migration in corundum
Автор
Platonenko, Alexander
Gryaznov, Denis
Zhukovskii, Yuri F.
Kotomin, Eugene A.
Дата
2018Metadata
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We have calculated possible migration trajectories for single-charged interstitial Oi− anion using large-scale hybrid density functional theory within linear combination of atomic orbitals approach to defective α-Al2O3 crystals. The most energetically favorable configuration for charged Oi− anion is formation of pseudo-dumbbell (split interstitial) with a regular Oreg ion. For charged interstitial oxygen migration, the energy barrier turns out to be ∼0.8–1.0 eV. This is considerably smaller than that for a neutral interstitial atoms (1.3 eV), in agreement with experimental data.