Electronic Structure of Ilmenite and Ilmenite-Hematite Solid Solution Using Hard X-Ray Photoemission Spectroscopy

Electronic structure of ilmenite: X-ray absorption and DFT study

The experimental Ti K-edge X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectrum of the mineral ilmenite was recorded. The theoretical Ti K-XANES spectra of ilmenite were simulated using both the self-consistent real-space full-multiple scattering theory within the muffin-tin approximation for the potential shape and the full-potential finite difference method. The comparison of the theoretical...

Magnetic clusters in ilmenite-hematite solid solutions

Direct evidence of Fe/Fe charge order in the ferrimagnetic hematite- ilmenite Fe1.5Ti0.5O3-δ solid solution

A strong interplay between charge, lattice, orbital and spin degrees of freedom exists in transition-metal oxides yielding the emergence of a large spectrum of functionalities such as hightemperature superconductivity, metal/insulator transition, multiferroicity, thermoelectricity... More specifically, mixed valence states of 3d elements issue as a driving force in such interplay. In addition, ...

Mg4Sb2O9 of the ilmenite structure type

Single crystals of the title compound, tetra-magnesium dianti-monate(V), were obtained by the slow cooling method with K(2)CO(3). The structure is isotypic with ilmenite, which is constructed by the alternate stacking of layers consisting of metal-oxygen coordination octa-hedra. In each layer, the octa-hedra are connected by sharing edges so as to make holes. One of the two non-equivalent metal...

Probing bulk electronic structure with hard X-ray angle-resolved photoemission.

Traditional ultraviolet/soft X-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) may in some cases be too strongly influenced by surface effects to be a useful probe of bulk electronic structure. Going to hard X-ray photon energies and thus larger electron inelastic mean-free paths should provide a more accurate picture of bulk electronic structure. We present experimental data for hard X-r...