1. Introduction to EXAFS IV Examples
F. Bridges
Physics Dept. UCSC,
MC2 Chalmers
Scott Medling
Michael Kozina
Brad Car
Yu (Justin) Jiang
Lisa Downward
C. Booth
G. Bunker
Outline
Examples using XANES
Thermal vibrations Einstein modes
Jahn –Teller Distortions
Polarons
Off-center displacements
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2. More AC Electroluminescence: low emission for small ZnS:Cu,Cl particles
Emission from tips of needle-like CuS precipitates
For µm particles, devices are ~ 50 µm thick, and require ~ 100 V AC voltage.
If can reduce operating voltage to 10V, easier AC EL operation and 10 times less power.
Smaller particles should allow 5-10 µm devices.
Problem:
Slightly smaller particles do allow operation at lower voltages
BUT!– small particles have very low AC EL, even in 50 µm thick device.
Why?
30 µm ZnS:Cu,Cl particle under 100V AC excitation.
0.15% Cu.
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3. Current model for AC EL ZnS:Cu,Cl
CuS has a different crystal structure – layered.
CuxS precipitate (NP); conductor in an insulating host. Small – nm scale.
Isolated Cu – hole traps
Cl atoms -- shallow electron traps.
During field switching, large fields at sharp tips – injects holes and electrons on opposite ends of NP.
Injected electrons/ holes trapped; next time field is switched, then electron-hole recombination occurs emitting light.
CuxS
ZnS Cu Cl Cu Cl Cu Cu
Cu plays two roles, part of CuxS and isolated Cu is hole trap
Fischer 1960’s
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4. AC EL degraded for small particles
Milled 200 RPM, 2 min.
58 µm devices.
25 µm device works at lower V
To explore particle size effect, size-separated particles : < 3 µm; 3-15 µm; µm.
3 µm particles – very little ACEL!!
200 RPM 2 minutes, only slightly ground
400 PRM 2 minutes, many fine particles, but still some large particles
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5. EXAFS – size-selected particles ZnS:Cu,Mn,Cl
Early EXAFS on ground particles showed some decrease in amplitude but varied from sample to sample.
Using size-selected particles – immediate result.
The smaller the particles the more the Cu environment was damaged. (Cu K-edge)
Surprisingly the Zn environment - same sample - showed no evidence of damage
Even more surprising, another dopant, Mn, also showed no damage!
How can CuS precipitates, encapsulated inside ZnS, be damaged but ZnS is not?
CuxS
ZnS Cu Cl
FFT ranges: Cu, Å-1 , Zn Å-1, Mn Å-1
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6. XANES -- similar results
Cu K-edges shows very large change – the large edge structure observed for large particles decreased as particle size decreased → suggests disorder on few unit cell level.
Zn and Mn K-edges show no indication of any change – traces for the three sizes overlap nearly perfectly.
How?
(CuS nano-precipitates embedded in the ZnS host.)
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7. ZnS:Cu,Mn,Cl fractures along 111 planes
Experiments on single crystals suggested that needle-like CuS precipitates form along 111 planes; EXAFS suggests epitaxial growth - but small strain in 111 plane.
Zinc Blende materials usually cleave on 111 planes, may do so more easily along a strained plane.
The doped ZnS particles also etch on 111 planes.
If ZnS:Cu preferentially cleaves through the CuS precipitates, the CuS NP will end up on surfaces of smaller particles.
Grinding always damages the surface, but for host ZnS a negligible fraction of material , even for 0.1 µm particles.
For the CuS NP , most of it may end up on surface for small particles and be damaged.
Small particles made via grinding not viable for AC EL.
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8. Compare these two materials
La1-xSrxCoO3
An unusual magnetic system. Formal Co valence increases with Sr doping.
For LaMnO3 no Co moment at low T but moment develops near 100K – called a spin state transition.
With Sr doping becomes ferromagnetic and above 18% Sr, metallic
Early neutron PDF analysis suggested a significant JT distortion present when moment present.
La1-xCaxMnO3
Colossal magnetoresistance material - large JT distortion for Mn3+ .
Formal Mn valence increases with Ca doping
Ferromagnetic metal for ~ 20-50% Ca,
Compare these two materials
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9. Phase Diagram of La1-xSrxCoO3
He et al, Phys. Rev. B 76, (2007)
The magnetic phase diagram in zero-field. At very low doping, the system is nonmagnetic; it slowly transforms into a spin glass (SG), then to a spin-cluster-glass phase, and then becomes ferromagnetic (FM).
(b) The magnetic susceptibility of LaCoO The transition observed near 100 K is due to the thermal activation of some diamagnetic low-spin Co atoms (LS, t2g6eg0) to an intermediate-spin (IS, t2g5eg1) or high spin (HS, t2g4eg2) state configuration .
(c) If there is a localized eg1 state it should be Jahn-Teller (JT) active; a JT distortion would be a signature for the IS spin state.
Is FM metal? Resistivity?
LaCoO3
Major Question: Is there a J-T splitting (and IS state)?
Is there a difference between bulk and nano?
D. Louca et. al., Phys. Rev. B 60, (1999)
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10. LS-IS-HS of Localized Trivalent Co
O. Toulemonde et. al. Journal of Solid State Chemistry 158, (2001)
Schematic diagram of the spin states for trivalent Co ions:
(A) low spin, LS (t62g) with ΔCEF>Jex, where Jex is the intra-atomic exchange energy and ΔCEF is the crystal field energy;
(B) intermediate spin, IS (t52ge1g) with Jahn-Teller distortion;
(C) high spin, HS (t42ge2g ) with ΔCEF<Jex.
With Sr doping, are electrons removed from t2g or eg bands,
or do holes go into O bands?
Co 3d74s2. Jex is Hubbard U para.
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11. Bulk Magnetization 1 μB = 5585 emu/mol
30% Sr
1 T
10 Oe
10%: Msat(5T) ~ 0.45 μB
15%: Msat(5T) ~ 0.78 μB
Wu & Leighton, PRB 67, (2003)
(powder samples)
Bulk Magnetization 1 μB = 5585 emu/mol
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12. Magnetization in nanoparticles at 20G much smaller than for bulk
Belanger, Booth etal.
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13. Pseudo-cubic Manganites La1-xCaxMnO3 (LCMO)
P. Schiffer et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3336(1995)
Phase Diagram Mn O
La/Ca
6 equal Mn-O in CaMnO3 at ~1.9 Å
Mn-O are distorted in LaMnO3
2 Mn-O at ~1.90 Å
2 Mn-O at ~1.97 Å
2 Mn-O at ~2.15 Å
Investigate the proposed dimeron model, which is a two-site polaron model
For x = 0.2 ~ 0.5, LCMO has a Colossal Magneto-Resistance (CMR).
In this concentration range, FM metal at low T – no JT distortion; paramagnetic insulator at high T – large JT distortion. What is in between?
Question: What is the distortion associated with the JT polaron?
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14. X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure -comparison
Edge shifts depend on bond lengths
Manganites
Cobaltites
Manganites
Large shift with Ca concentration
Edge shape is nearly same –i.e. a nearly rigid edge shift – about 3 eV per valence unit.
Cobaltites
Essentially no edge shift with Sr concentration (bulk or nano material). Shift is less than 0.15eV
PRB 63, (2001)
PRB 80, (2009)
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15. Co XANES – summary
No significant Co K-edge shift for La1-xSrxCoO3 up to x = 0.35, very few Co4+ (d5) are present
in other Co systems the edge shifts ~3 eV/valence unit, and up to Co3.5 in NayCoO2; (Poltavets etal PRB 74, (2006)).
The Co-O bond length is nearly constant with increasing Sr concentration – in both diffraction and EXAFS. No valence change from Bond-valence model.
Bond-valence model – valence (V) is directly dependent on sum over nearest neighbor bond lengths. A lack of bond length change as the Sr concentration increases also indicates no Co valence change (B~0.37Å).
Conclusion:
The holes must be introduced primarily into the O(2p) bands
O K-edge XANES also suggest holes on O
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16. Co Pre-edge results, 10K
First peak recently shown to be a quadrupole transition to the eg state. Second pre-edge peak transition is to hybridized eg-4p state – amplitude determined by hybridization. (Vanko etal, arXiv: v1).
When (bulk) sample is magnetized (increasing x), peaks move together; for nanoparticles (weakly magnetic), peaks do not shift with x.
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17. Compare σ2(T) for Co and Mn (Different distortions)
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18. Mn EXAFS:- T and B dependence
30% Ca, B=0T; T dependence.
30% Ca, T = 270K; B dependence
We fit the first few peaks to a sum of EXAFS functions (from FEFF), with Gaussian PDFs and focus on the first Mn-O peak. The disorder is parameterized by σ, the PDF width.
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19. Difference DATA – to show B-field dependence
30% Ca (Tc =262K); 3 temperatures
Plots: Data(T,B) –Data(4K,0T)
Dotted line shows rescaled r-space data at T=4K,B=0T.
Largest difference near Tc.
No magnetic field dependence for Mn-La peak.
Small but clear dependence for Mn-Mn peak.
Note 5X expanded scale for 30% Ca at 80K.
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20. Non-phonon part of σ2(T)
σ2(T) vs T for ordered CaMnO3 – phonons only (solid line).
Parallel to high T data (above Tc) for all samples.
Subtract σ2 phonons(T) from data for CMR samples –flat above Tc
The polaron correlations just above Tc do not change the local distortions.
30% Ca; B= 0 and 9T.
22% Ca, B=0
Complete JT/Polaron distortion
Increasing JT/Polaron distortion.
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21. 2 vs T for x = 0.21, 0.3, 0.4, 0.45; Mn-O peak F. Bridges
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22. 2JT/polaron vs M/MT; B  2T
Magnetization does not saturate until B  0.4T at low T (30% Ca); requires higher B field for other samples, other temperatures.
For B fields  2T; a universal curve for given sample.
Curve provides a direct relationship between local distortion and magnetization.
Small amount of distortion removed until the sample is roughly 60% magnetized. Slope is the same for every sample.
Above 60%, decrease in disorder per Mn site is faster and slope has largest magnitude for lower concentrations.
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23. Dimeron Polaron Model Low Ca conc.
For Dimeron, EJT small and comparable on 2 sites; electron (hole) shared over 2 sites -- these are the low distortion sites.
Dimeron confined by large JT distortions on neighboring Mn atoms.
extended electron state – or very fast-hopping; on core-hole lifetime scale??
Double exchange operative – spins on each site parallel -- spin 7 object. Will have some weight on central O atom.
Low Ca conc.
Transport via activated hopping – energy barrier ~½ EJT.
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24. Co EXAFS r-space data for LSCO
4 K
300 K
There is little difference between bulk samples of the same Sr concentration made by two collaborators.
The nano samples with the same concentration have smaller amplitudes for the longer Co-X peaks; the peak amplitudes decreases more rapidly with distance.
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25. σ2(T) for bulk LSCO
σ2(T) follows the correlated Debye model very well;
Correlated Debye temperatures, θcD, are about 770 K ± 40K.
No indication of J-T distortion.
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26. Comparing LSCO with LCMO
See PRL 102, (2009)
Comparison of σ2(T) for 20% bulk and nano La1-xSrxCoO3 and 22% La1-xCaxMnO3:
The LCMO sample has a large Jahn-Teller distortion that develops between 100 and 190 K.
All the LSCO samples, either bulk or nano, show similar σ2(T) as the 20% bulk LSCO – fits correlated Debye model with very little static distortion.
No significant JT distortion was found in LSCO (x = 0 – 0.35) at any temperature from 4 to 300 K.
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27. Ba3CuSb2O9 an unusual magnetic system
Cu should be Cu+2 in this material and therefore Jahn-Teller (JT) active (d9).
Cu+2 is a spin ½ atom; if there is a crystal field splitting from a significant JT interaction spin interactions should be anisotropic – i.e. g-factor in ESR should be anisotropic.
However in most samples g-factor appears isotropic and sample retains C3v symmetry about the hexagonal axis. Appears inconsistent with a JT active atom or indicates that the JT distortion is small! – or?
One of samples does show an orthorhombic distortion in neutron scattering – and an anisotropic g-factor - more as expected, but why only one of many samples?
Problem for diffraction in orthorhombic space group cmcm : Cu and one Sb share a crystallographic site and form Cu-Sb pairs. In diffraction the Cu and Sb occupations are random – but in EXAFS strongly correlated; always Cu-Sb, and never Cu-Cu or Sb-Sb.
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28. CuO6 Octahedra Hex. Axis C3v If C3v symmetry retained, all axes equal.
No static Jahn-Teller distortion (i.e would require one of axes to lengthen).
For JT distortion, the Cu-O distribution would split into two long and four short Cu-O bond.
JT theorem does not require static distortion – may be dynamic. Then time scale becomes important.
On ESR time scale C3v symmetry retained on average. O Cu
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29. CuO6 Octahedra Hex. Axis C3v If C3v symmetry retained, all axes equal.
No static Jahn-Teller distortion (i.e would require one of axes to lengthen).
For JT distortion, the Cu-O distribution would split into two long and four short Cu-O bond.
JT theorem does not require static distortion – may be dynamic. Then time scale becomes important.
On ESR time scale (10-10 s) C3v symmetry retained on average.
On neutron time scale (10-12 s) C3v symmetry retained at 300K in Ortho sample.
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30. Possible structures from neutron diffraction
Average Hexagonal structure
P63/mmc
Are Cu/Sb(2) randomly occupied or correlated ?
Is the octahedron about Cu symmetric or JT distorted?
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31. Ba3CuSb2O9 local structure different from average structure
EXAFS experiments on the Orthorhombic and Hexagonal samples is identical (blue dots, red squares)
Cu-O peak strongly suppressed in EXAFS data – consistent with significant Jahn-Teller distortion for both samples.
Surprisingly , the small Cu-Sb peak (one neighbor) is large in EXAFS but smaller and at a shorter distance in the calculated structure (for any structure - P63mc, P63/mmc, or cmcm)
Large differences between EXAFS peak positions experimentally and those calculated from structure determined in diffraction.
Cu-O
Cu-Sb
Cu K-edge data, 10K
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32. Combining EXAFS and Diffraction
No Cu-Cu or Sb-Sb dumbbells.
Cu-Sb dumbbells alternate in some way.
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33. Ba3CuSb2O9 - fit results
EXAFS: Cu-O peak is split - large JT splitting - and identical in both samples in EXAFS, and almost unchanged from 10 to 300K.
Cu-Sb peak is very well ordered (small σ2 at low T) and significantly longer (0.07Å) compared to diffraction.
How can the ESR data show no JT splitting in most samples and the neutron scattering data only shows a large JT distortion at low T?
Answer: must consider time scales: ESR sec; neutron scattering sec; phonons sec; EXAFS sec. The JT distortions are fluctuating rapidly, generally much faster that ESR time scales and comparable or faster than neutron scattering time scales. Fluctuations are slow on EXAFS time scales and the full JT distortion is observed.
For magnetism the spin interaction with the structure is motionally averaged!
Thus can consider the spin ½ interactions without structural interaction.
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