Published December 19, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Structure and electronic properties of new rutile-like rhenium (IV) dioxide ReO2

  • 1. Institute of Solid State Chemistry, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg GSP-145, 620219 (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Hamburg, Jungiusstrasse 9, 20355 Hamburg (Germany)

Description

A new rhenium (IV) dioxide crystallized in the rutile-type structure was successfully synthesized by a solid-state route and characterized by elemental analyses, X-ray and neutron powder diffraction. The structure obtained is tetragonal (space group P42/mnm) with the lattice constants a=4.79825(5) and c=2.80770(4) A. The electronic properties of rutile-like ReO2 were investigated by means of the projected augmented wave (PAW) method within both LDA and LDA+U approximations. The results revealed that the antiferromagnetic ordering is favorable for this system with the local magnetic moments about 1.0μB per Re atom. O 2p-Re 5d hybridization is important, and a covalent bonding between O and Re atoms occurs

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DOI
10.1016/j.physleta.2005.08.025;
PII
S0375-9601(05)01246-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. A
Journal Volume
348
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 66-70
ISSN
0375-9601
CODEN
PYLAAG

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