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Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Electronic Structures of Lanthanide Indium Perovskites LnInO₃.

ABSTRACT: Ternary lanthanide indium oxides LnInO₃ (Ln = La, Pr, Nd, Sm) were synthesized by high-temperature solid-state reaction and characterized by X-ray powder diffraction. Rietveld refinement of the powder patterns showed the LnInO₃ materials to be orthorhombic perovskites belonging to the space group Pnma, based on almost-regular InO₆ octahedra and highly distorted LnO₁₂ polyhedra. Experimental structural data were compared with results from density functional theory (DFT) calculations employing a hybrid Hamiltonian. Valence region X-ray photoelectron and K-shell X-ray emission and absorption spectra of the LnInO₃ compounds were simulated with the aid of the DFT calculations. Photoionization of lanthanide 4f orbitals gives rise to a complex final-state multiplet structure in the valence region for the 4f ⁿ compounds PrInO₃, NdInO₃, and SmInO₃, and the overall photoemission spectral profiles were shown to be a superposition of final-state 4f ^n-1 terms onto the cross-section weighted partial densities of states from the other orbitals. The occupied 4f states are stabilized in moving across the series Pr-Nd-Sm. Band gaps were measured using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. These results demonstrated that the band gap of LaInO₃ is 4.32 eV, in agreement with DFT calculations. This is significantly larger than a band gap of 2.2 eV first proposed in 1967 and based on the idea that In 4d states lie above the top of the O 2p valence band. However, both DFT and X-ray spectroscopy show that In 4d is a shallow core level located well below the bottom of the valence band. Band gaps greater than 4 eV were observed for NdInO₃ and SmInO₃, but a lower gap of 3.6 eV for PrInO₃ was shown to arise from the occupied Pr 4f states lying above the main O 2p valence band.

SUBMITTER: Hartley P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8042864 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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