First-principles study of lanthanum strontium manganite: Insights into electronic structure and oxygen vacancy formation

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 13346-13356

  Pavone, Michele ^a   Muñoz García, Ana B ^a   Ritzmann, Andrew M ^b   Carter, Emily A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; DEFECT DENSITY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FUEL CELLS; GROUND STATE; IONS; LANTHANUM; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; LOW TEMPERATURE PHENOMENA; LOW TEMPERATURE TESTING; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MANGANESE; OXYGEN; SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC); TEMPERATURE; VACANCIES;

ALIOVALENT SUBSTITUTION; ANTIFERROMAGNETICS; ELECTRONIC GROUND STATE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY; LANTHANUM STRONTIUM MANGANITE; LOW TEMPERATURE EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC ARRANGEMENTS; PARAMAGNETIC STATE;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

EID: 84908390237     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp500352h     Document Type: Article

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