Pressure-Induced Tunable Magnetism and Half-Metallic Stability in Co2FeGa Heusler Alloy

2013 ◽  
Vol 477-478 ◽  
pp. 1303-1306
Author(s):  
Qin Xiang Gao

Using the first-principles calculations within the density functional theory (DFT), we have investigated the structure, magnetism and half-metallic stability of Co2FeGa Heusler compound under pressure from 0 to 50GPa. The results revel that the lattice constant is gradually shrank and total magnetic moment in per unit slightly decreased with increasing pressure, respectively. Moreover, with the increase of the pressure, the Fermi level will move towards high-energy orientation. When the pressure reaches at 30GPa the most stable half-metallicity is observed which the Fermi level is located at the middle of the spin-minority gap.

2011 ◽  
Vol 415-417 ◽  
pp. 1407-1410
Author(s):  
Qing Zhou ◽  
Bo Wu ◽  
Hong Kuan Yuan ◽  
Hong Chen

By using the first-principles calculations within the density functional theory (DFT), we investigate the electronic structure, magnetism and half-metallic stability of half-Heusler compound NiMn1-xNbxSb. The results showed that the lattice constants and magnetic moments per unit respectively follow the Vegard law and the Slater-Pauling rule well. The most stable half-metallicity occurs at doping concentration x=0.25 due to the Fermi level is situated the middle of the spin-down gap. Our studies also indicate that the competition of hybridization of d-electrons and RKKY-type magnetic coupling plays a dominating role in determining the magnetism.


2011 ◽  
Vol 130-134 ◽  
pp. 1430-1434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Feng ◽  
Bo Wu ◽  
Hong Kuan Yuan ◽  
Hong Chen

Using GGA+U (UCo=2.1eV, UFe=2.5eV) scheme based on the density functional theory (DFT), we investigate the electronic structure, magnetism and half-metallic stability of Ga-doped Heusler compound Co2FeSi. We find that the lattice constants and total magnetic moments in per unit respectively obey the Vegard’s rule and the Slater-Pauling rule well. The most stable half-metallicity occurs at doping concentration x=0.5 due to the Fermi level is situated slightly above the middle of the spin-down gap. Our studies also indicate that the RKKY-type exchange mechanism plays a dominating role in determining the magnetism of HMFs.


RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 13662-13668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Chang ◽  
Sha Yin ◽  
Jun Xu

The adsorption of Li atoms on various types of doped graphene with substituents, including boron, nitrogen, sulfur and silicon atoms, has been theoretically investigated by first-principles calculations, based on the density functional theory.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1015 ◽  
pp. 377-380
Author(s):  
Tao Chen ◽  
Ying Chen ◽  
Yin Zhou ◽  
Hong Chen

Using the first-principles calculations within density functional theory (DFT), we investigated the electronic and magnetic properties of (100) surface of inverse Heusler alloy Mn2CoSb with five different terminations. Our work reveals that the surface Mn atom moves to vacuum while surface Co atom moves to slab. Moreover, duo to the reason that the surface atom lost half of the nearest atoms with respect to the bulk phase, resulting in the decrease of hybridization, the atom-resolved spin magnetic moments of surface atoms are enhanced. Further investigation on DOS and PDOS showed that half-metallicity was preserved only in SbSb-termination while was destroyed in MnCo-, MnSb-, MnMn-, and CoCo-termination due to the appearance of surface states.


RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (44) ◽  
pp. 25900-25911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esmaeil Pakizeh ◽  
Jaafar Jalilian ◽  
Mahnaz Mohammadi

In this study, based on the density functional theory and semi-classical Boltzmann transport theory, we investigated the structural, thermoelectric, optical and phononic properties of the Fe2ZrP compound.


Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiwei Wang ◽  
Dahuai Zheng ◽  
Mengyuan Hu ◽  
Shahzad Saeed ◽  
Hongde Liu ◽  
...  

Numerous studies have indicated that intrinsic defects in lithium niobate (LN) dominate its physical properties. In an Nb-rich environment, the structure that consists of a niobium anti-site with four lithium vacancies is considered the most stable structure. Based on the density functional theory (DFT), the specific configuration of the four lithium vacancies of LN were explored. The results indicated the most stable structure consisted of two lithium vacancies as the first neighbors and the other two as the second nearest neighbors of Nb anti-site in pure LN, and a similar stable structure was found in the doped LN. We found that the defects dipole moment has no direct contribution to the crystal polarization. Spontaneous polarization is more likely due to the lattice distortion of the crystal. This was verified in the defects structure of Mg2+, Sc3+, and Zr4+ doped LN. The conclusion provides a new understanding about the relationship between defect clusters and crystal polarization.


2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (31) ◽  
pp. 1950386
Author(s):  
Vladimir Saleev ◽  
Alexandra Shipilova

The first-principles calculations of band gaps and bulk moduli of cesium lead halide perovskite solid solutions, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], are performed at the level of general gradient approximation of the density functional theory. We use supercell approach for computational modeling of disordered systems, which gives a description of the properties of the structure baasing on the average over a set of multiple configurations, namely distributions of different species over a given set of atomic positions. The calculations were performed with the CRYSTAL14 program package. The dependence of the band gap and bulk modulus on the content [Formula: see text] are investigated over the whole range [Formula: see text].


2013 ◽  
Vol 373-375 ◽  
pp. 1965-1969
Author(s):  
Kun Nan Qin ◽  
Ling Zhi Zhao ◽  
Yong Mei Liu ◽  
Fang Fang Li ◽  
Chao Yang Cui

The electronic structure and optical properties of Cu-doped SnS2with Sn-substituted content of 0, 12.5 and 37.5 at.% were successfully calculated by the first principles plane-wave pseudopotentials based on the density functional theory. It is found that the intermediate belts appear near the Fermi level and the energy band gap becomes narrower after the doping of the Cu atoms. The absorption peaks show a remarkable redshift and the absorption region broadens relatively after introducing acceptor impurity level. When Sn atoms of 37.5 at% were substituted by Cu, the optical absorption coefficient is significantly improved in the frequency range below 5.58 eV and over 8.13 eV.


2010 ◽  
Vol 139-141 ◽  
pp. 22-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Tan ◽  
Yu Qing Li ◽  
Xue Jie Liu ◽  
De Gong Liu

The structural and elastic properties of HfN and Hf-Si-N have been studied, using first principles calculations based on the density functional theory. These calculations provide the lattice parameter, cohesive energy and elastic constants of fcc (NaCl)-HfN, the N-deficient Hf-Si-N and the Hf-deficient Hf-Si-N solution phase. In order to study the relative stability, binding energy of all configurations has been calculated. The results showed that it was difficult to add a Si atom into the center of the HfN cell because the cohesive energy decreased. However, if an Hf atom or an N atom was missing in the HfN, a silicon atom was possible to occupy the vacant site and form the Hf-Si-N substitutional solid solution. Moreover, the bulk modulus, shear modulus and elastic modulus increased accordingly, the mechanical properties were improved.


2012 ◽  
Vol 229-231 ◽  
pp. 130-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Wu ◽  
Yu Feng ◽  
Hong Kuan Yuan ◽  
Hong Chen

Using the ab-initio calculations within the density functional theory (DFT), we have investigated the electronic structure, magnetism and half-metallic stability of Si-doped Heusler compound Ti2CoGa with Hg2CuTi-type structure. The results revel that the lattice constants and total magnetic moments in per unit obey the Vegard’s rule and the Slater-Pauling rule well, respectively. The most stable half-metallicity occurs at doping concentration x=0.75 because the Fermi level is located at the middle of the spin-minority gap. Our studies also indicate that the competition between RKKY-type indirect exchange and direct hybridization of d-electronic atoms plays a dominating role in determining the magnetism.


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