Calculation on Electronic State of $MnO_2$ Oxide Semiconductor with other initial spin conditions by First Principle Molecular Orbital Method

제1원리 분자궤도계산법에 의한 초기 spin 조건에 따른 $MnO_2$ 반도체의 전자상태 변화 계산

  • 이동윤 (한국전기연구원 전자기소자연구그룹) ;
  • 김봉서 (한국전기연구원 전자기소자연구그룹) ;
  • 송재성 (한국전기연구원 전자기소자연구그룹) ;
  • 김현식 ((주)매트론)
  • Published : 2003.11.13

Abstract

The spin density of ${\beta}-MnO_2$ structure was theoretically investigated by $DV-X_{\alpha}$ (the discrete variation $X{\alpha}$) method, which is a sort of the first principle molecular orbital method using Hatre-Fock-Slater approximation. The used cluster model was $[Mn_{14}O_{56}]^{-52}$. The ${\beta}-MnO_2$ is a paramagnetic oxide semiconductor material having the energy band gap of 0.18 eV and an 3 loan-pair electrons in the 3d orbital of an cation. This material exhibits spin-only magnetism and has the magnetic ordering temperature of 94 K. Below this temperature its magnetism appears as antiferromagnetism. The calculations of electronic state showed that if the initial spin condition of input parameters changed, the magnetic state changed from paramagnetic to antiferromagnetic. When d orbital of all Mn atoms in cluster had same initial spin state as only up spin, paramagnetic spin density distribution appeared by the calculation. On the other way, d orbital had alternately changed spin state along special direction the resulted spin distribution showed antiferromagnetism.

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