First-principle calculation of core level binding energies of LixPOyNz solid electrolyte
Author(s) -
Émilie Guille,
Germain Salvato Vallverdu,
Isabelle Baraille
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of chemical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.071
H-Index - 357
eISSN - 1089-7690
pISSN - 0021-9606
DOI - 10.1063/1.4904720
Subject(s) - x ray photoelectron spectroscopy , binding energy , electrolyte , amorphous solid , electronic structure , thermodynamics , chemistry , photoemission spectroscopy , materials science , computational chemistry , chemical physics , crystallography , atomic physics , physics , nuclear magnetic resonance , electrode
International audienceWe present first-principle PAW-DFT-PBE calcns. of core-level binding energies for the study of insulating, bulk phase, compds., based on the Slater-Janak transition state model. Those calcns. were performed in order to find a reliable model of the amorphous LixPOyNz solid electrolyte which is able to reproduce its electronic properties gathered from X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) expts. As a starting point, Li2PO2N models were investigated. These models, proposed by Du et al. on the basis of thermodn. and vibrational properties, were the first structural models of LixPOyNz. Thanks to chem. and structural modifications applied to Li2PO2N structures, which allow to demonstrate the relevance of our computational approach, we raise an issue concerning the possibility of encountering a non-bridging kind of nitrogen atoms ( = N-) in LixPOyNz compds
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