Published March 1, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Optical properties of the filled skutterudite LaFe4P12

  • 1. Department of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074 (China)

Description

Full potential linearized augmented plane wave plus local orbital method (FPLAPW+lo) calculations were performed for LaFe4P12 in the filled skutterudite in order to investigate the optical properties and to show the origin of the different optical transitions. It is found that the band gap is indirect for LaFe4P12. Then the contribution of the different transitions peaks is analyzed from the imaginary part of the dielectric function. In contrast to recent experimental expectations, our calculations are in good agreement with experimental reflection spectra and ε 1(ω) spectrum

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2006.08.005;
PII
S0921-4526(06)01622-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
390
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 147-150
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.