Crystal and electronic structures and high-pressure behavior of AgSO4, a unique narrow band gap antiferromagnetic semiconductor: LDA(+U) picture.
We demonstrate that DFT calculations performed with the local density approximation (LDA) allow for significantly better reproduction of lattice constants, the unit cell volume and the density of Ag(II)SO(4) than those done with generalized gradient approximation (GGA). The LDA+U scheme, which accounts for electronic correlation effects, enables the accurate prediction of the magnetic superexchange constant of this strongly correlated material and its band gap at the Fermi level. The character of the band gap places the compound on the borderline between a Mott insulator and a charge transfer insulator. The size of the band gap (0.82 eV) indicates that AgSO(4) is a ferrimagnetic semiconductor, and possibly an attractive material for spintronics. A bulk modulus of 27.0 GPa and a compressibility of 0.037 GPa(-1) were determined for AgSO(4) from the third-order Birch-Murnaghan isothermal equation of state up to 20 GPa. Several polymorphic types compete with the ambient pressure P-1 phase as the external pressure is increased. The P-1 phase is predicted to resist pressure-induced metallization up to at least 20 GPa.
ICM, University of Warsaw, Pawińskiego 5A, Warsaw, 02106, Poland. mariana@icm.edu.pl
Mariana
M
Derzsi
Juliusz
J
Stasiewicz
Wojciech
W
Grochala
D003461:Crystallography; D004583:Electrons; D060328:Magnetic Phenomena; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011312:Pressure; D012666:Semiconductors; D018030:Silver Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D013431:Sulfates / Q000737:chemistry*; D013816:Thermodynamics
D018030:Silver Compounds; D013431:Sulfates
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