Valence-band ordering

VALENCE BAND ORDERING AND MAGNETOOPTICAL PROPERTIES OF FREE AND BOUND EXCITONS IN ZnO... 

Valence band ordering and magneto-optical properties... 

Valence Band Ordering and Magneto-Optical Properties of Free and Bound Excitons in ZnO 159... 

W.C. (1999) Valence-band ordering in ZnO. Physical Review B Condensed Matter,... 

The relevance of the indirect minima E- and E are in determining the transport properties of the material. For all of the A1 compounds and GaP, the lowest conduction band is at X and the valence band maximum is at F. The other bands foUow in the order E- >. This is the same relative... 

Here, W is a cut-off of the order of the 7t-band width, introduced because the right-hand side of Eq. (3.13) is formally divergent. As in the discrete model, the spectrum of eigenstates of Hct for A(a)= Au has a gap between -Ao and +Alh separating the empty conduction band from the completely filled valence band. 

Solid mixed ionic-electronic conductors (MIECs) exhibit both ionic and electronic (electron-hole) conductivity. Naturally, in any material there are in principle nonzero electronic and ionic conductivities (a i, a,). It is customary to limit the use of the term MIEC to those materials in which a, and 0, 1 do not differ by more than two orders of magnitude. It is also customary to use the term MIEC if a, and Ogi are not too low (o, a i 10 S/cm). Obviously, there are no strict rules. There are processes where the minority carriers play an important role despite the fact that 0,70 1 exceeds those limits and a, aj,i< 10 S/cm. In MIECs, ion transport normally occurs via interstitial sites or by hopping into a vacant site or a more complex combination based on interstitial and vacant sites, and electronic (electron/hole) conductivity occurs via delocalized states in the conduction/valence band or via localized states by a thermally assisted hopping mechanism. With respect to their properties, MIECs have found wide applications in solid oxide fuel cells, batteries, smart windows, selective membranes, sensors, catalysis, and so on. 

Advantages of small metal nanoparticles are (i) short range ordering, (ii) enhanced interaction with environments due to the high number of dangling bonds, (iii) great variety of the valence band electron structure, and (iv) self-structuring for optimum performance in chemisorption and catalysis. 

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