We provide a first-principles description of the crystalline and oxygen-deficient Ta2O5 using refined computational methods and models. By performing calculations on a number of candidate structures, we determined the low-temperature phase and several stable oxygen vacancy configurations, which are notably different from the previous results. The most stable charge-neutral vacancy site induces a shallow level near the bottom of conduction band. Stability of different charge states is studied. Based on the results, we discuss the implications of the level structures on experiments, including the leakage current in Ta2O5-based electronic devices and catalysts.
@article{arxiv.1211.0339,
title = {Electronic Structures of Oxygen-deficient Ta2O5},
author = {Yong Yang and Ho-Hyun Nahm and Osamu Sugino and Takahisa Ohno},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0339},
year = {2012}
}
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23 pages, 4 figures and 2 tables in the body texts plus 4 figures in the supplementary material