Electronic structures of hexagonal RMnO3 (R = Gd, Tb, Dy, and Ho) thin films

Details Electronic structures of hexagonal RMnO3 (R = Gd, Tb, Dy, and Ho) thin films Electronic structures of hexagonal RMnO3 (R = Gd, Tb, Dy, and Ho) thin films

2007-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/0708.2318v1

Phys. Rev. B 77, 045137 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

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10.1103/PhysRevB.77.045137

We investigated the electronic structure of multiferroic hexagonal RMnO3 (R = Gd, Tb, Dy, and Ho) thin films using both optical spectroscopy and first-principles calculations. Using artificially stabilized hexagonal RMnO3, we extended the optical spectroscopic studies on the hexagonal multiferroic manganite system. We observed two optical transitions located near 1.7 eV and 2.3 eV, in addition to the predominant absorption above 5 eV. With the help of first-principles calculations, we attribute the low-lying optical absorption peaks to inter-site transitions from the oxygen states hybridized strongly with different Mn orbital symmetries to the Mn 3d3z2-r2 state. As the ionic radius of the rare earth ion increased, the lowest peak showed a systematic increase in its peak position. We explained this systematic change in terms of a flattening of the MnO5 triangular bipyramid.

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