Tuning Optical Properties of Transparent Conducting Barium Stannate by Dimensional Reduction

TL;DR

This paper investigates how reducing the dimensionality of layered perovskites affects their electronic and optical properties, revealing potential for transparent conductors and wavelength filtering applications.

Contribution

It provides computational insights into the optical behavior of doped BaSnO3 and layered perovskites, highlighting the impact of dimensional reduction on transparency and absorption.

Findings

Doped BaSnO3 remains transparent below the band gap.

Layered perovskites show below band edge optical absorption.

Certain layered compounds absorb in the red and infrared, useful for filtering.

Abstract

We report calculations of the electronic structure and optical properties of doped $n$-type perovskite BaSnO3 and layered perovskites. While doped BaSnO$_3$ retains its transparency for energies below the valence to conduction band onset, the doped layered compounds exhibit below band edge optical conductivity due to transitions from the lowest conduction band. This gives absorption in the visible for Ba2SnO4. Thus it is important to minimize this phase in transparent conducting oxide (TCO) films. Ba3Sn2O7 and Ba4Sn3O10 have strong transitions only in the red and infrared, respectively. Thus there may be opportunities for using these as wavelength filtering TCO.