TY  - JOUR
JF  - Surface Science
A1  - Logsdail, AJ
A1  - Mora-Fonz, D
A1  - Scanlon, DO
A1  - Catlow, CRA
A1  - Sokol, AA
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.susc.2015.06.012
SN  - 0039-6028
N1  - © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
VL  - 642
SP  - 58
KW  - Band-bending
KW  -  Ionisation potential
KW  -  Rocksalt oxides
KW  -  Surface rumpling
KW  -  Surface structure
N2  - We perform a systematic investigation of (100) surfaces for rocksalt-structured group 2 metal oxides, namely MgO, CaO, SrO and BaO, using GGA and Hybrid-DFT exchange-correlation functionals. We examine the structural, energetic and electronic properties of the surfaces, with a specific focus on the surface ionisation potential and band bending; the latter of which we quantify by examining the density of states as a function of depth from the system surface. We report structural and energetic results in-line with previous experimental work when we use the Hybrid-DFT method, and for the electronic structure we find inequivalent band bending for the valence and conduction bands, which results in reduced ionisation potentials and the closure of the band gap at the surface when compared to bulk systems. We also report downward bending of the conduction band for MgO that brings it below the vacuum potential, unlike previous theoretical investigations, and thus indicates an origin of the positive electron affinity found in the experiment.
ID  - discovery1472401
PB  - Elsevier
TI  - Structural, energetic and electronic properties of (100) surfaces for alkaline earth metal oxides as calculated with hybrid density functional theory
AV  - public
Y1  - 2015/12/01/
EP  - 65
ER  -