Suppression of Surfaces States at Cubic Perovskite (001) Surfaces by CO Adsorption
arXiv:1806.09711 · doi:10.1039/C8CP02535E
Abstract
By using first-principles approach, the interaction of CO with (001) surfaces of six cubic ABO perovskites (A = Ba, Sr and B = Ti, Zr, Hf) is studied in detail. We show that CO adsorption results in the formation of highly stable CO-like complexes with similar geometries for all investigated compounds. This reaction leads to the suppression of the surfaces states, opening the band gaps of the slab systems up to the corresponding bulk energy limits. For most AO-terminated ABO(001) perovskite surfaces, a CO coverage of 0.25 was found to be sufficient to fully suppress the surface states, whereas the same effect can only be achieved at 0.50 CO coverage for the BO terminations. The largest band gap modulation among the AO-terminated surfaces was found for SrHfO(001) and BaHfO(001), whereas the most profound effect among the BO terminations was identified for SrTiO(001) and BaTiO(001). Based on these results and considering practical difficulties associated with measuring conductivity of highly resistive materials, TiO-terminated SrTiO(001) and BaTiO(001) were identified as the most prospective candidates for chemiresistive CO sensing applications.
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