material

LaFeO3
ID:

mp-1078634
Tags: Lanthanum iron trioxide

Material Details

Final Magnetic Moment
0.000 μB

Calculated total magnetic moment for the unit cell within the magnetic ordering provided (see below). Typically accurate to the second digit.
Magnetic Ordering
AFM
Formation Energy / Atom
-2.958 eV

Calculated formation energy from the elements normalized to per atom in the unit cell.

Energy Above Hull / Atom
0.000 eV

The energy of decomposition of this material into the set of most stable materials at this chemical composition, in eV/atom. Stability is tested against all potential chemical combinations that result in the material's composition. For example, a Co2O3 structure would be tested for decomposition against other Co2O3 structures, against Co and O2 mixtures, and against CoO and O2 mixtures.

Density
6.48 g/cm3

The calculated bulk crystalline density, typically underestimated due calculated cell volumes overestimated on average by 3% (+/- 6%)

Decomposes To
Stable
Band Gap
1.964 eV

In general, band gaps computed with common exchange-correlation functionals such as the LDA and GGA are severely underestimated. Typically the disagreement is reported to be ~50% in the literature. Some internal testing by the Materials Project supports these statements; typically, we find that band gaps are underestimated by ~40%. We additionally find that several known insulators are predicted to be metallic.

Space Group

Hermann Mauguin
R3c [167]
Hall
-R 3 2"c
Point Group
3m
Crystal System
trigonal

Electronic Structure

Topological data for ICSD ID 236169 from Topological Materials Database
Topological Classification
SM*
Subclassification
ESFD†
Crossing Type
Point
* Semimetal
† Enforced Semimetal with Fermi point Degeneracy

Band Structure and Density of States

Warning! Semi-local DFT tends to severely underestimate bandgaps. Please see the wiki for more info.

X-Ray Diffraction

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Calculated powder diffraction pattern; note that peak spacings may be affected due to inaccuracies in calculated cell volume, which is typically overestimated on average by 3% (+/- 6%)

Elasticity

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Similar Structures beta feature

Explanation of dissimilarity measure: Documentation.
material dissimilarity Ehull # of elements
YReN3 (mp-989611) 0.1100 0.032 3
YAlO3 (mp-756214) 0.1161 0.046 3
DyAlO3 (mp-754936) 0.1112 0.041 3
LaCrO3 (mp-19357) 0.1227 0.007 3
LaMnO3 (mp-19168) 0.1272 0.135 3
La2MgTiO6 (mvc-11012) 0.2001 0.020 4
La2MgCoO6 (mvc-15464) 0.2112 0.048 4
La2MgWO6 (mvc-15459) 0.1969 0.167 4
La2MgSnO6 (mvc-13582) 0.2260 0.033 4
In2Ag (mp-760385) 0.6672 0.096 2
Hf2Ge (mp-1072256) 0.6718 0.622 2
CaLa9Ti5Cr5O30 (mp-694926) 0.2943 0.063 5
Ca2La8Ti5Cr5O30 (mp-743953) 0.2897 0.045 5
SrLa7TiGa7O24 (mp-720505) 0.3548 0.015 5
SrLaMnRuO6 (mp-39239) 0.3523 0.084 5
SrLaMnRuO6 (mp-690590) 0.3148 0.084 5
Up to 5 similar elemental, binary, ternary, quaternary, etc. structures displayed (dissimilarity threshold 0.75). Ehull: energy above hull per atom [eV].

Synthesis Descriptions

10.1016/0254-0584(94)90082-5
The precursor of the nanocrystalline material LaFeO3 has been prepared using a reverse drop coprecipitation method with polyvinyl alcohol as a protecting agent. After the precursor was calcined by wet [...]
10.1016/j.actamat.2010.10.066
Polycrystalline LaFeO3 was synthesized by the solid-state reactions method using high-purity La2O3 (99.99%, Aldrich) and Fe2O3 (99.99%, Aldrich) as starting materials. A mixture of these oxides in sto [...]
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Calculation Summary

Structure Optimization

Run Type
GGA+U
Energy Cutoff
520 eV
# of K-points
None
U Values
Fe: 5.3 eV
Pseudopotentials
VASP PAW: La Fe_pv O
Final Energy/Atom
-7.6395 eV
Corrected Energy
-85.0291 eV
Uncorrected energy = -76.3951 eV Composition-based energy adjustment (-0.687 eV/atom x 6.0 atoms) = -4.1220 eV Composition-based energy adjustment (-2.256 eV/atom x 2.0 atoms) = -4.5120 eV Corrected energy = -85.0291 eV

Detailed input parameters and outputs for all calculations

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ICSD IDs
  • 236170
  • 236174
  • 236178
  • 236169
  • 236177
  • 236176
  • 236179
  • 236171
  • 236172
  • 236175
  • 236173
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  • Lanthanum iron trioxide

Displaying lattice parameters for primitive cell; note that calculated cell volumes are typically overestimated on average by 3% (+/- 6%). Note the primitive cell may appear less symmetric than the conventional cell representation (see "Structure Type" selector below the 3d structure)