Abstract
The effects on the lattice parameter due to incorporation of high concentrations of donor impurities in SrTiO 3 are examined both experimentally and theoretically. Experimental lattice parameters were obtained from x-ray diffraction on La-doped films grown on bulk SrTiO 3 substrates with carrier concentrations up to 2 × 10 21 cm -3. The observed increase in lattice parameter is attributed to two causes: impurity-size and electronic effects. The latter can be attributed in part to the energy gain by lowering the conduction band upon volume expansion. These contributions are evaluated explicitly using hybrid functional calculations, with a net result in very good agreement with experiment.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 262104 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 100 |
Issue number | 26 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 25 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the U.S. Army Research Office under Grant Nos. W911-NF-11-1-0232 and W911-NF-09-1-0398 and by the MRSEC Program of the National Science Foundation under Award No. DMR 1121053. It made use of the MRL and CNSI Computing Facility under NSF Grant No. DMR-1121053, and the Ranger supercomputer from the XSEDE computing resources supported by the NSF under Grant No. DMR070072N.