Comment on "Uncovering the Complex Behavior of Hydrogen in Cu2O"

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2011-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/1112.4840v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

2 pages and 1 figure

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In a recent Letter Scanlon and Watson reported their first principles results on hydrogen in Cu2O. Their main conclusions are: (1) an interstitial H in Cu2O prefers to occupy the tetrahedral site, which is coordinated with four Cu cations, in all three charge states (+1, neutral, and -1); (2) H will bind with a Cu vacancy and form an electrically active H-VCu defect complex, which is amphoteric with (+/0) and (0/-)transition levels at Ev + 0.1 and Ev + 1.1 eV, respectively. However, these two conclusions contradict two generally observed behaviors of H in oxides: (i) cationic H usually binds with an O atom, forming a single O-H bond, while the anionic H usually binds with cations with multi-coordination; (ii) H usually passivates cation vacancies in oxides. In this Comment, we explicitly show that with charge state +1, H prefers to bind with a single O anion rather than with four Cu cations and that H-VCu does not induce any defect levels inside the band gap.

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