{"title":"A Comprehensive First Principle Investigation of Ti-Doped Ca(Hf1–xTix)S3 Alloys: Implications on Electronic Structure and Stability with Hubbard Correction","authors":"Mulugetta Duressa Kassa","doi":"10.1134/S1063783424600894","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063783424600894","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates the potential of Ca(Hf<sub>1–<i>x</i></sub>Ti<sub><i>x</i></sub>)S<sub>3</sub> chalcogenide perovskite alloys (orthorhombic phase) for optoelectronic applications. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations explore the influence of titanium (Ti) doping (<i>x</i> = 0, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00) on the material’s structural, thermodynamic, electronic, and optical properties. The calculations confirm the structural and thermodynamic stability of the alloys through tolerance factor and formation energy calculations. Interestingly, Ti doping is found to influence the bulk modulus and its derivative, affecting the material’s compressibility and hardness. A crucial finding is the decrease in bandgap with increasing Ti concentration, falling within the optimal range for efficient light absorption (1.0–1.6 eV). This suggests that Ti doping can enhance the optoelectronic properties of Ca(Hf<sub>1–<i>x</i></sub>Ti<sub><i>x</i></sub>)S<sub>3</sub>. Furthermore, all studied compositions (<i>x</i> = 0, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00) exhibit favorable light absorption across the visible to ultraviolet spectrum, making them promising candidates for solar cells and other optoelectronic devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":731,"journal":{"name":"Physics of the Solid State","volume":"66 10","pages":"387 - 398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142565757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. I. Najafov, T. G. Mammadov, Kh. V. Aliguliyeva, S. Sh. Gahramanov, V. B. Aliyeva, V. N. Zverev, N. A. Abdullayev
{"title":"Low-Temperature Electrical Conductivity in Mn-Doped Bi0.9Sb0.1 Solid Solutions","authors":"A. I. Najafov, T. G. Mammadov, Kh. V. Aliguliyeva, S. Sh. Gahramanov, V. B. Aliyeva, V. N. Zverev, N. A. Abdullayev","doi":"10.1134/S1063783424601358","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063783424601358","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The temperature dependence of the specific electrical resistance of the semiconductor single-crystal Bi<sub>0.9</sub>Sb<sub>0.1</sub> solid solution doped with 1% Mn is shown to have, with a decrease in temperature, the activation character of the band electrical conductivity with the activation energy 10 meV that is changed at temperatures below 20 K for the “metallic” character determined by the electrical conductivity (EC) over the impurity band. The activation EC in single-crystal Bi<sub>0.9</sub>Sb<sub>0.1</sub> solid solutions doped with 3% Mn is revealed to disappear and the “metallic” character of EC is observed over entire temperature range under study 5‒300 K with a peculiarity at low temperatures near 25 K reacting on external magnetic fields. It is assumed that, at high concentrations of doping with Mn atoms, a wide impurity band appears overlapping the whole forbidden band, and the observed peculiarities are related to spin fluctuations that take plays when ordering spins of magnetic Mn atoms. The mobility and the charge carrier concentration are evaluated.</p>","PeriodicalId":731,"journal":{"name":"Physics of the Solid State","volume":"66 10","pages":"399 - 407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142565827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First-Principles Study of Structural, Electronic, Magnetic, and Thermodynamic Properties of Tetrataenite L10-FeNi Alloy","authors":"Z. Zine, N. Meftah","doi":"10.1134/S1063783424601115","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063783424601115","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Iron–nickel alloys have received substantial interest because of their exceptional properties and diverse applications in technology and industry. In order to investigate their possible applications, the current research explored the structural, electronic, magnetic, and thermodynamic characteristics of tetrataenite L<span>({{1}_{0}})</span>-FeNi alloy through a first-principles approach. The computations were carried out utilizing the density functional theory’s full-potential linearized augmented plane wave. For the electronic exchange-correlation function, we employed the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and GGA+U (Hubbard potential). The computed lattice parameter and bulk moduli for tetrataenite L<span>({{1}_{0}})</span>-FeNi exhibit excellent accord with previously reported data. The formation energy was calculated to be –0.18 eV/f.u. which confirming the structural stability of tetrataenite. The electronic structure revealed that the 3<i>d</i> orbitals of Ni and Fe are major elemental states that contribute to the metallic characteristics of the body-centered tetragonal (bct) L<span>({{1}_{0}})</span>-FeNi. Meanwhile, the thermodynamic characters are investigated using the quasi-harmonic Debye mode. The thermal expansion coefficient and the heat capacities are affected simultaneously by the pressure and temperature.</p>","PeriodicalId":731,"journal":{"name":"Physics of the Solid State","volume":"66 10","pages":"416 - 423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142565872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Raman Evidence for Pressure-Induced Phase Transition in Barium Carbonate","authors":"Jizhen Hui, Anwar Hushur, Amat Hasan","doi":"10.1134/S1063783424600985","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063783424600985","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Raman scattering experiments were performed on barium carbonate at ambient temperature and high pressure within a hydrostatic environment, employing liquid nitrogen as the pressure-transmitting medium. This approach allowed for the investigation of hydrostatic pressure effects on the barium carbonate structure. Previous studies suggest that the stability threshold of the orthorhombic barium carbonate structure lies around 8 GPa. At pressures ranging from 8 to 10 GPa, the material exhibited a mixed phase. Upon reaching 10 GPa, the orthorhombic structure of barium carbonate vanished, giving way to a transformation into the trigonal phase. The phase transition significantly impacted the intensity of the Raman spectra, in-dicating an influence on the electronic structure, notably causing the electron cloud to rearrange and the bond character to alter. The re-emergence of the orthorhombic phase at a reduced pressure of 5.3 GPa und-erscored the pronounced hysteresis phenomena associated with the phase transition of barium carbonate. We determined that, while this phase transition is reversible upon pressure release, it is accompanied by persistent characteristic peaks of the trigonal phase, suggesting incomplete transformation back to the orthorhombic phase during decompression, with the residual proportion of the trigonal phase constituting approximately 12%.</p>","PeriodicalId":731,"journal":{"name":"Physics of the Solid State","volume":"66 9","pages":"318 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142409539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Copper (II) Mixed Ligand Complexes Using Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Data","authors":"Sudhir Sawasiya, Pramod Kumar Malviya","doi":"10.1134/S1063783424600870","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063783424600870","url":null,"abstract":"<p>X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) has been studied at the <i>K</i>-edge of copper in copper(II) complexes: Cu(L<sup>1</sup>)<sub>2</sub>Cl<sub>2</sub>·2H<sub>2</sub>O (<b>1</b>), Cu(L<sup>2</sup>)<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>·5H<sub>2</sub>O (<b>2</b>), Cu(L<sup>3</sup>)<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>·5H<sub>2</sub>O (<b>3</b>) and Cu(L<sup>4</sup>)<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>·5H<sub>2</sub>O (<b>4</b>), where L<sup>1</sup> = salicylaldehyde benzoyl hydrazine (SBH), L<sup>2</sup> = 5-nitro SBH, L<sup>3</sup> = 5-methyl SBH, and L<sup>4</sup> = 5‑bromo SBH. Cu <i>K</i>-Edge EXAFS beamline (BL-09) at 2.5 GeV established at Indus-2, RRCAT, Indore, India, was used to describe the data. Using the published crystal structures of each of these complexes, theoretical models have been created individually. Coordination numbers and bond length are among the characteristics of the structural that have been identified by fitting these theoretical models to the corresponding experimental EXAFS data. The first peak’s position in the Fourier transform, as well as the graphical technique of Levy, Lytle, and L.S.S., provide the value of the first shell bond length. The bond lengths of the complexes in study have been experimentally determined using the Levy, Lytle, and L.S.S. approach. These approaches’ outcomes have been compared to those of a theoretical approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":731,"journal":{"name":"Physics of the Solid State","volume":"66 9","pages":"341 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142409537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overview on Spinel Oxides: Synthesis and Applications in Various Fields","authors":"Davuluri Srikala, S. D. Kaushik, Maya Verma","doi":"10.1134/S1063783424601073","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063783424601073","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Spinel oxides received widespread research interest because of versatility involved in various properties which are tunable as per disparity in composition, morphology, defects, doping sites, structure, lattice dynamics, interactions, surface area, substrate and so on. Due to the significant multifunctional applications, it is vital to probe these materials as they allow various dopants for the construction of diverse composites with novel and innovative performance. The present review is meant for the quicker understanding of 4-2 spinel oxides. The article covers the background of spinel oxides with their synthesis and applications. To begin with, spinel oxide crystal structure is introduced. It is observed that the diverse properties arise from the variety of cations substituted at the tetrahedral A-site and octahedral B-site. Traditional synthesis and novel methods for preparing spinel oxides is discussed in depth. Finally, it sheds light on recent advancement of spinel oxides for the multifunctional applications such as batteries, sensors, photocatalysts, multiferroics, memory devices, fuel cells and many more.</p>","PeriodicalId":731,"journal":{"name":"Physics of the Solid State","volume":"66 9","pages":"327 - 340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142409453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oxide Coated Noble Metal Nanoparticles in Biosensors: Analytical Modeling and Discrete Dipole Approximation Method","authors":"Adil Bouhadiche, Soulef Benghorieb","doi":"10.1134/S1063783424600833","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063783424600833","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Noble metal nanoparticles (NMNPs), such as gold and silver, have been studied extensively in various fields in science and technology due to their peculiar properties, including high stability, easy chemical synthesis, tuneable surface functionalization and plasmonic property. Researchers have used them to fabricate biosensors. Indeed, biosensors have received a lot of attention because they enable the production of small, portable devices. The biosensor industry has grown; design attempts to improve and strengthen their detection characteristics and reduce their volumes. Enzymes are generally used to provide high selectivity and sensitivity; however, their short shelf life becomes a major drawback. Scientists have tried to find other materials to replace enzymes; having long-term stability and suitability for biosensors. Nanoparticles and metal oxides substituting enzymes in sensing devices represent the best candidate to achieve high selectivity and sensitivity. Herein, coated noble metal nanoparticles of various shapes and sizes, including nanospheres, nanowires, nanocubes and nanocylinders, are dispersed in surrounding media with different refractive indices to study, via the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) method, the response of their surface plasmon peaks. For this, a simulation model is proposed for the calculations of the plasmonic properties of the considered NPs, and analytical formulas are presented. The refractive index sensitivities (RISs) have been found to depend on the shape, size, core material, shell thickness and shell composition of the nanoparticles. LSPR sensors based on gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) exhibit the lowest RISs compared to the Ag and Al based nanosensors with a value of 93.33 nm/RIU (Ag) > 46 nm/RIU (Al) > 26 nm/RIU (Au), X = 5 nm. Numerical data clearly explain why silver is the plasmon material of choice for sensing applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":731,"journal":{"name":"Physics of the Solid State","volume":"66 9","pages":"299 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142409533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ashvini Pusdekar, N. S. Ugemuge, R. A. Nafdey, S. V. Moharil
{"title":"Near-Infrared Emission in Na5Y(WO4)4:Nd3+","authors":"Ashvini Pusdekar, N. S. Ugemuge, R. A. Nafdey, S. V. Moharil","doi":"10.1134/S1063783424601188","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063783424601188","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Luminescence in Na<sub>5</sub>Y(WO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>4</sub>:Nd<sup>3+</sup> is investigated for the first time. The emission is in the near-infrared region. The well known <sup>4</sup><i>F</i><sub>3/2</sub> → <sup>4</sup><i>I</i><sub>9/2</sub> transition leads to most intense line at 1069 nm. The excitation and emission spectra are interpreted using the energy level diagram of Nd<sup>3+</sup>. The excitation spectrum is made up of a large number of sharp lines attributable to various <i>f–f</i> transitions. A weak band at 360 nm in the ex-citation spectrum is assigned to the host. Notwithstanding large <i>Y</i>–<i>Y</i> distances, the luminescence is quenched at concentrations exceeding 2 mol %. The critical distance for energy transfer among Nd<sup>3+</sup> ions is found to be 32.85 Å.</p>","PeriodicalId":731,"journal":{"name":"Physics of the Solid State","volume":"66 9","pages":"291 - 298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142409466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermodynamic and Magnetic Properties of Heavy Fermion UTe2 Superconductor","authors":"Habtamu Anagaw, Gebregziabher Kahsay, Tamiru Negussie","doi":"10.1134/S1063783424600729","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063783424600729","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the current study, the density of state, condensation energy, specific heat, and magnetization in a spin triplet superconductor UTe<sub>2</sub> have been theoretically investigated. By utilizing the retarded double-time temperature-dependent Green’s function formalism and constructing a model Hamiltonian for the system, we derived expressions for the aforementioned parameters. MATLAB scripts were used to plot the phase diagrams. From the phase diagrams, we observed that the density of state of superconducting electron increases with excitation energy, reaching a maximum at the superconducting gap. Beyond this point, it decreases until it equals the normal state density. Condensation energy decreases with temperature, reaching a minimum at the superconducting transition temperature (<i>T</i><sub>C</sub>). However, it increases with <i>T</i><sub>C</sub> and eventually becomes zero, indicating that the superconducting and normal state energies are equal. Furhermore, specific heat increases with temperature, exhibiting a maximum at <i>T</i><sub>C</sub> followed by a jump, characteristic of a second-order phase transition from the superconducting to the normal state. Both itinerant and localized electron magnetization decrease with temperature, vanishing at <i>T</i><sub>C</sub> = 1.6 K and magnetic phase transition temperature <i>T</i> = 2 K, respectively, signifying a ferromagnetic to paramagnetic transition. Our findings align well with previous research.</p>","PeriodicalId":731,"journal":{"name":"Physics of the Solid State","volume":"66 9","pages":"349 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142409536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling the Size Dependence of Specific Heat Capacity and Thermal Expansion Coefficient of Metallic Nanocrystals","authors":"Hongchao Sheng, Beibei Xiao, Xiaobao Jiang","doi":"10.1134/S1063783424600808","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1063783424600808","url":null,"abstract":"<p>At mesoscale, materials always exhibit a variety of novel properties that are completely different from those of bulk. In this work, the size (<i>D</i>) dependence functions of specific heat capacity <i>C</i><sub>p</sub>(<i>D</i>) and thermal expansion coefficient α(<i>D</i>) for metallic nanocrystals is built. The proposed model shows a good agreement as compared with the available experimental an simulation data of metal nanocrystals. Both <i>C</i><sub>p</sub>(<i>D</i>) and α(<i>D</i>) increase following the drop of <i>D</i>. In addition, it is found that the ratio of the solid/liquid interface energy γ<sub>sl</sub> to surface stress <i>f</i> dominate the size dependence of <i>C</i><sub>p</sub>(<i>D</i>) and α(<i>D</i>), and this influence of γ<sub>sl</sub>/<i>f</i> on <i>C</i><sub>p</sub>(<i>D</i>) and α(<i>D</i>) become greater as <i>D</i> decrease.</p>","PeriodicalId":731,"journal":{"name":"Physics of the Solid State","volume":"66 9","pages":"313 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142409538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}