Browsing by Author "Komarek, A. C."

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Charge-transfer energy in iridates: A hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study
(2020-07-13)
Takegami, D.
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Kasinathan, D.
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Wolff, K. K.
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Altendorf, S. G.
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Chang, C. F.
We have investigated the electronic structure of iridates in the double perovskite crystal structure containing either Ir4+ or Ir5+ using hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The experimental valence band spectra can be well reproduced using tight-binding calculations including only the Ir 5d, O 2p, and O 2s orbitals with parameters based on the downfolding of the density-functional band structure results. We found that, regardless of the A and B cations, the A(2)BIrO(6) iridates have essentially zero O 2p to Ir 5d charge-transfer energies. Hence double perovskite iridates turn out to be extremely covalent systems with the consequence being that the magnetic exchange interactions become very long ranged, thereby hampering the materialization of the long-sought Kitaev physics. Nevertheless, it still would be possible to realize a spin-liquid system using the iridates with a proper tuning of the various competing exchange interactions.
Floating zone growth of Ba-substituted ruthenate Sr2-xBaxRuO4
(2015-10-01)
Li, Z. W.
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Liu, C. -F.
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Skoulatos, M.
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Tjeng, L. H.
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Komarek, A. C.
We report on the exploration to synthesize Sr2-xBaxRuO4, the large volume variant of the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4. We have succeeded in growing single crystals for x-values up to 0.4 by making use of the traveling solvent floating zone method. The quality of the obtained crystals is confirmed by X-ray and neutron diffraction measurements and the properties of these Ba-substituted ruthenates were studied with magnetic and electrical transport measurements. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.