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Different dopants with their specific dopant concentration can be utilized to produce ferroelectric HfO$_2$ thin films. In this work it is explored for the example of Sr in a comprehensive first-principles study. Density functional…
We discuss, based on first principles calculations, the possibility to tune the magnetism of oxygen vacancies at the (001) surface of strontium titanate $(\mathrm{SrTiO_3}\!)$. The magnetic moment of single and clustered vacancies stemming…
The oxygen vacancy formation energy ($\Delta E_{vf}$) governs defect dynamics and is a useful metric to perform materials selection for a variety of applications. However, density functional theory (DFT) calculations of $\Delta E_{vf}$ come…
A continuum approach to study magnetoelectric multiferroic $\mathrm{BiFeO}_3$ (BFO) is proposed. Our modeling effort marries the ferroelectric (FE) phase field method and micromagnetic simulations in order to describe the entire…
Among the ferromagnetic binary alloys, body centered cubic (bcc) Fe-Co is the one showing the highest magnetization. It is known experimentally that ordered Fe-Co structures show a larger magnetization than the random solid solutions with…
The equations of state, formation energy and migration energy barrier of the oxygen vacancy in SrFeO${_3}$ and LaFeO${_3}$ were calculated with the diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) method. Calculations were also performed with various…
Motivated by the complementary properties of vanadium-based ferromagnets and HfO$_2$-based ferroelectrics, we propose a novel multiferroic oxide, VHfO$_4$, through 50\% Hf$^{4+}$ substitution with V$^{4+}$ in the ferroelectric $Pca2_1$…
In the search for improved permanent magnets, fueled by the geostrategic and environmental issues associated with rare-earth-based magnets, magnetically hard (high anisotropy)-soft (high magnetization) composite magnets hold promise as…
We perform first-principles calculations of the quasiparticle defect states, charge transition levels, and formation energies of oxygen vacancies in rutile titanium dioxide. The calculations are done within the recently developed combined…
We have prepared a series of polycrystalline samples La$_{0.5}$Sr$_{0.5}$CoO$_{3-\delta}$} with $0 < \delta \le 0.21$ and characterized their oxygen content, crystal structure, and magnetic properties. While the fully oxygenated samples are…
Dielectric and magnetic phenomena in spin and charge frustrated system RFe2O4 (R is a rare-earth metal ion) are studied. An electronic model for charge, spin and orbital degrees in a pair of triangular-lattice planes is derived. We analyze…
Recent DFT calculations for Ba2CoO4 (BCO) and neutron scattering experiments for SrRuO3 (SRO) have shown that oxygen develops a magnetic polarization. Moreover, DFT calculations for these compounds also unveiled unexpected nodes in the spin…
We report a comprehensive neutron diffraction study of the crystal structure and magnetic order in a series of single-crystal and powder samples of SrFeO$_{3-\delta}$ in the vacancy range $0 \leq \delta \leq 0.23$. The data provide detailed…
Motivated by recent spin- and angular-resolved photoemission (SARPES) measurements performed on the two-dimensional electronic states confined near the (001) surface of SrTiO$_3$ in the presence of oxygen vacancies, we explore their spin…
Nonstoichiometric ceria(CeO$_{2-\delta}$) is a candidate reaction medium to facilitate two step water splitting cycles and generate hydrogen. Improving upon its thermodynamic suitability through doping requires an understanding of its…
Super-exchange most often leads to antiferromagnetim in transition-metal perovskite oxides, yet ferromagnetism or ferrimagnetism would be preferred for many applications, for example in data storage. While alloying, epitaxial strain and…
Memristive devices have gained significant attention for their potential in next-generation non-volatile memory and neuromorphic computing architectures. Among emerging candidates, transition metal oxides have proven particularly promising.…
A combination of variable-temperature neutron scattering, reverse Monte Carlo analysis and direct Monte Carlo simulation is used to characterise the emergence of magnetic order in the metal--organic framework (MOF) Tb(HCOO)$_3$ over the…
We propose a model with few parameters, for vacancy-induced ferromagnetism based on a correlated model for anions (oxygen orbitals) with random potentials that represent cation vacancies. There is a range of potential strength for which…
We report the synthesis and properties of two new insulating phases of SrFeO3-d with introduction of oxygen deficiencies in metallic SrFeO3 ; one with 0.15 < d < 0.19 (sample A)and the other above d = 0.19 (sample B). Sample A shows large…