Alkaline-Earth and Rare-Earth Elements and Oxygen Vacancy in BaTiO3: Analyses by First-Principles Calculations and EXAFS
| Periodical | Key Engineering Materials (Volume 485) |
|---|---|
| Main Theme | Electroceramics in Japan XIV |
| Edited by | Chazono Hirokazu, Fujihara Shinobu, Katayama Keiichi, Masumoto Hiroshi, Mizoguchi Teruyasu, Osada Minoru, Shinozaki Kazuo and Takeda Hiroaki |
| Pages | 23-26 |
| DOI | 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.485.23 |
| Citation | Atsushi Honda et al., 2011, Key Engineering Materials, 485, 23 |
| Online since | July, 2011 |
| Authors | Atsushi Honda, Shin'ichi Higai, Takafumi Okamoto, Noriyuki Inoue, Yasuhiro Motoyoshi, Nobuyuki Wada, Hiroshi Takagi |
| Keywords | BaTiO3, Dopant, EXAFS, First-Principle Calculations, MLCC, Oxygen Vacancy |
| Price | US$ 28,- |
We performed first-principles calculations to examine the interaction among rare-earth (RE), alkaline-earth (AE) elements and oxygen vacancy (VO) in BaTiO3, in order to clarify the combined effects of VO trapping by two different elements. It was found that there is a synergistic effect of VO trapping by RE at Ba site and AE at Ti site, so that the co-doping is effective to improve insulating reliability of BaTiO3. We also verified that the local atomic structures around dopants obtained by calculations well agree with that obtained experimentally by extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) analyses. The present work is the first one to clarify the structural environment around dopants including VO by both theoretical and experimental approaches.