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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Akhtar, Shaheen
• Alay-e-Abbas, Syed Muhammad
• Abbas, Syed Muhammad Ghulam
• Arshad, Muhammad Imran
• Batool, Javaria
• Amin, Nasir

Titel

First-principles evaluation of electronic and optical properties of (Mo, C) codoped BaHfO3 for applications in photocatalysis

Ist Teil von

• Journal of applied physics, 2018-04, Vol.123 (16)

Ort / Verlag

Melville: American Institute of Physics

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

AIP Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this paper, we report first-principles spin-polarized density functional theory calculations for exploring the effect of aliovalent Mo and C dopants on the electronic properties and photocatalysis potential of doped modifications of wide-bandgap cubic perovskite oxide BaHfO3 for water splitting. The structural and thermodynamic properties are computed by using the generalized gradient approximation, whereas the modified Becke-Johnson local density approximation is used to calculate the electronic structures of pristine, cation (Mo), and anion (C) monodoped and cation-anion (Mo, C) codoped BaHfO3. The spin-polarized calculations reveal that substitutional dopants CO and MoHf in the BaHfO3 lattice are thermodynamically stable. The incorporation of C in the O site reduces the bandgap of BaHfO3 and acts as a double-acceptor system, whereas a metallic character is obtained when Mo is doped into the Hf site giving rise to a double-donor system. We show that the acceptor and donor states of the C- and Mo-monodoped BaHfO3 can be passivated by (Mo, C) codoping at nearest-neighbor Hf and O sites of the BaHfO3 lattice, respectively. Analysis of the calculated electronic structure and optical absorption of (Mo, C) codoped BaHfO3 with reference to the H2O oxidation and reduction potentials reveals that this system is a suitable candidate for efficient splitting of water through photocatalysis in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum.