Stoichiometric oxygen content in NaxCoO2

Details Stoichiometric oxygen content in NaxCoO2 Stoichiometric oxygen content in NaxCoO2

2006-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603600v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

15 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.73.212107

The crystal structure and oxygen stoichiometry in two-layer Na0.74CoO2 and Na0.38CoO2 at room temperature are analyzed by powder neutron diffraction. Two sets of diffraction data for each sample, taken at different incident neutron wavelengths, lambda=1.1968 Angstroms and lambda=1.5403 Angstroms, are analyzed simultaneously by the Rietveld method, allowing for the independent refinement of all structural parameters. The fractional oxygen site occupancies are found to be 1.01(1) for Na0.74CoO2 and 0.99(2) for Na0.38CoO2 respectively. These results indicate that the oxygen content of these phases is stoichiometric to a precision of 1 to 2%, and therefore the formal cobalt oxidation state is determined solely by the sodium content. The analysis also reveals that both types of sodium ions in the structure are in off-center distorted trigonal prismatic geometry.

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