Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2007-10-19
Phys. Rev. B 77, 075119 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.075119
The magnetic properties and structure of LixCoO2 for x between 0.5 and 1.0 are reported. Co4+ is found to be high-spin in LixCoO2 for x between 0.94 and 1.0 and low-spin for x between 0.50 and 0.78. Weak antiferromagnetic coupling is observed, increasing in strength as more Co4+ is introduced. At an x value of about 0.65, the temperature-independent contribution to the magnetic susceptibility and the electronic contribution to the specific heat are largest. Neutron diffraction analysis reveals that the lithium oxide layer expands perpendicular to the basal plane and the Li ions displace from their ideal octahedral sites with decreasing x. A comparison of the structures of the NaxCoO2 and LixCoO2 systems reveals that the CoO2 layer changes substantially with alkali content in the former but is relatively rigid in the latter. Further, the CoO6 octahedra in LixCoO2 are less distorted than those in NaxCoO2. We postulate that these structural differences strongly influence the physical properties in the two systems.
Bos J.-W. G.
Cava Robert. J.
Hertz J. T.
Huang Qingzhen
Klimczuk T.
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