@article{
author = "Kurboniyon, Mekhrdod S. and Lou, Bibo and Zafari, Umar and Rahimi, Farhod and Srivastava, Alok M. and Yamamoto, Tomoyuki and Brik, Mikhail G. and Ma, Chong-Geng",
year = "2023",
abstract = "In this study, we present the results of first-principles calculations conducted within the density functional theory to investigate the geometric and electronic structures of the ground 4 A2 and excited 2 E and 4 T2 states, as well as the optical transition energies between these states, in the prototype system of K2SiF6:Mn4+. To achieve this, we employed a comprehensive evaluation of the five representative exchange-correlation functionals, enabling the development of a state-of-art calculation scheme that effectively describes the geometric and electronic structures of the excited 2 E and 4 T2 states. The calculated excitation, emission and zero-phonon line energies of the optical transitions between the ground 4 A2 state and the excited 2 E and 4 T2 states demonstrate a better agreement with experimental results. However, we observed that the conventional and widely-used approach based on the analysis of the electronic density of states diagrams derived from the ground state calculations failed to accurately evaluate the vertical optical transition energies from the 4 A2 ground state to the excited 2 E and 4 T2 states when compared to experimental data. The calculation technique developed in this study holds the potential for widespread application to other combinations of host materials and impurity ion, which is of great importance for future developments in the field of optical materials.",
journal = "Journal of Luminescence",
title = "First-principles study of geometric and electronic structures, and optical transition energies of Mn4+ impurity ions: K2SiF6 as a prototype",
volume = "263",
pages = "120103",
doi = "10.1016/j.jlumin.2023.120103"
}
