“…These theoretical EFG tensors are then compared to available experimental TDPAC results. 30,31 Although the EFG has already been proved to be a powerful tool to identify impurity sites in metal oxides, 17,19,25,27,28 to our knowledge, a deep study of the Cd localization in Al 2 O 3 through a direct confrontation between measurements and reliable ab initio predictions has not been reported yet. Nevertheless, the situation faced in the present study is complicated by the fact that, in confronting experiments and ab initio EFG results, two possibly equivalent scenarios are found, and to further unravel this issue, we performed energetic studies.…”