title: Structural, electronic and optical properties of ilmenite and perovskite CdSnO3 from DFT calculations.
abstract: CdSnO(3) ilmenite and perovskite crystals were investigated using both the local density and generalized gradient approximations, LDA and GGA, respectively, of the density functional theory (DFT). The electronic band structures, densities of states, dielectric functions, optical absorption and reflectivity spectra related to electronic transitions were obtained, as well as the infrared absorption spectra after computing the vibrational modes of the crystals at q = 0. Dielectric optical permittivities and polarizabilities at ω = 0 and ∞ were also calculated. The results show that GGA-optimized geometries are more accurate than LDA ones, and the Kohn-Sham band structures obtained for the CdSnO(3) polymorphs confirm that ilmenite has an indirect band gap, while perovskite has a direct band gap, both being semiconductors. Effective masses for both crystals are obtained for the first time, being highly isotropic for electrons and anisotropic for holes. The optical properties reveal a very small degree of anisotropy of both crystals with respect to different polarization planes of incident light. The phonon calculation at q = 0 for perovskite CdSnO(3) does not show any imaginary frequencies, in contrast to a previous report suggesting the existence of a more stable crystal of perovskite CdSnO(3) with ferroelectric properties.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 59072-970 Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Sesion
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Henriques
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Barboza
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Albuquerque
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Freire
authors.forename: E W S
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Caetano
mesh_terms: D000042:Absorption; D019187:Cadmium Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D017610:Calcium Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D017097:Electric Impedance; D004583:Electrons; D007501:Iron / Q000737:chemistry*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D055620:Optical Phenomena; D010087:Oxides / Q000737:chemistry*; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D017971:Tin Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D014025:Titanium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D019187:Cadmium Compounds; D017610:Calcium Compounds; D010087:Oxides; D017971:Tin Compounds; C029232:ilmenite; C059910:perovskite; D014025:Titanium; D007501:Iron