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Metal Cluster — Surface Interaction: Simple Models and Ab Initio Calculations
1999
We review recent ab initio atomistic calculations on interactions between metal clusters and electronically inert (insulating) substrates. The model system is sodium clusters on the sodium-chloride (001) surface. This system provides an example of weak cluster-support interaction (physisorption) which can however be easily modified by introducing color centers at the surface, resulting in chemisorption of sodium adatom or cluster. The results obtained from atomistic calculations can be used for constructing simple jellium-type models for the adsorbed cluster. These models allow for systematic investigations in a large size-range of clusters on the shell structure, dimensionality, and stabil…
Quantum Mechanical Modelling of Pure and Defective KNbO3 Perovskites
2000
Ab initio electronic structure calculations using the density-functional theory (DFT) are performed for KNbO3 with and without defects. Ferroelectric distortive transitions involve very small changes in energies and are therefore sensitive to DFT-approximations. This is discussed by comparing results obtained with the local density approximation (LDA) to those where generalized gradient approximations (GGA) are used. The results of ab initio calculations for F-type centers and bound hole polarons are compared to those obtained by a semiempirical method of the Intermediate Neglect of the Differential Overlap (INDO), based on the HartreeFock formalism. Supercells with 40 and 320 atoms were us…
Lattice Dynamics in Wurtzite Semiconductors: The Bond Charge Model of CdS
1999
An extension of the adiabatic bond charge model of Rustagi and Weber is used to study the lattice dynamic properties of wurtzite-type compounds. The model has been applied to the description of the phonon dispersion of CdS, which has been recently measured by neutron scattering. The agreement with the neutron data is excellent with a small set of physically meaningful parameters. The eigenvector admixture of the E2 modes, calculated at the G-point, agrees with the experimental values obtained through the isotopic mass dependence of the optical modes and ab initio calculations.
Ab initio calculations of PbTiO 3 /SrTiO 3 (001) heterostructures
2016
We performed ab initio calculations for the PbTiO3/SrTiO3 (001) heterostructures. For both PbO and TiO2-terminations of the PbTiO3 (001) thin film, augmented on the SrTiO3 (001) substrate, the magnitudes of atomic relaxations Δz increases as a function of the number of augmented monolayers. For both terminations of the augmented PbTiO3 (001) nanothin film, all upper, third and fifth monolayers are displaced inwards (Δz is negative), whereas all second, fourth and sixth monolayers are displaced outwards (Δz is positive). The B3PW calculated PbTiO3/SrTiO3 (001) heterostructure band gaps, independently from the number of augmented layers, are always smaller than the PbTiO3 and SrTiO3 bulk band…
Ab initio electronic band structure calculation of InP in the wurtzite phase
2011
Abstract We present ab initio calculations of the InP band structure in the wurtzite phase and compare it with that of the zincblende phase. In both calculations, we use the full potential linearized augmented plane wave method as implemented in the WIEN2k code and the modified Becke-Johnson exchange potential, which provides an improved value of the bandgap. The structural optimization of the wurtizte InP gives a = 0.4150 nm , c = 0.6912 nm , and an internal parameter u = 0.371 , showing the existence of a spontaneous polarization along the growth axis. As compared to the ideal wurtzite structure (that with the lattice parameter derived from the zincblende structure calculations), the actu…
Ab initio Hartree-Fock calculations of LaMnO3 (110) surfaces
2003
We present the results of ab initio Hartree-Fock calculations of the LaMnO3 (110) surface. Using seven-plane slabs, periodic in 2D and containing three formula units, we compare the properties of a stoichiometric surface with oxygen vacancies, and non-stoichiometric, defect-free surfaces, analyze the dispersion of the effective charges near the surface, and calculate the surface energy before and after relaxation, for both ferromagnetric and antiferromagnetic spin orderings in a slab. q 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
First principles simulations of 2D Cu superlattices on the MgO(0 0 1) surface
2004
AbstractFirst principles slab simulations of copper 2D superlattices of different densities on the perfect MgO(001) surface are performed using the DFT method as implemented into the CRYSTAL98 computer code. In order to clarify the nature of interfacial bonding, we consider regular 1/4, 1/2 and 1 monolayer (ML) coverages and compare results of our calculations with various experimental and theoretical data. Our general conclusion is that the physical adhesion associated with a Cu polarization and charge redistribution gives the predominant contribution to the bonding of the regular Cu 2D layer on the MgO(001) surface.
Calculations of the atomic and electronic structure for SrTiO3 perovskite thin films
2001
The results of calculations of SrTiO3 (100) surface relaxation and rumpling with two different terminations (SrO and TiO2) are presented and discussed. We have used the ab initio Hartree–Fock (HF) method with electron correlation corrections and the density functional theory (DFT) with different exchange–correlation functionals, including hybrid exchange techniques. All methods agree well on surface energies and on atomic displacements, as well as on the considerable increase of covalency effects near the surface. More detailed experiments on surface rumpling and relaxation are necessary for further testing of theoretical predictions.
DFT plane wave calculations of the atomic and electronic structure of LaMnO3(001) surface
2009
We present the results of ab initio DFT plane wave periodic structure calculations of the LaMnO3 (001) surface. The effects related to three different kinds of pseudopotentials, the slab thickness, magnetic ordering, and surface relaxation are studied and discussed. The antiferromagnetic surface lowest in energy (that is, the spins on Mn ions are parallel in basal plane and antiparallel from plane to plane) has a considerable atomic relaxation up to the fourth plane from the surface. The calculated (Bader) effective charges and the electronic density maps demonstrate a considerable reduction of the Mn atom ionicity on the surface accompanied by a covalent contribution to the Mn–O bonding.
Karplus-Type Dependence of Vicinal119Sn-13C and119Sn-1H Spin-Spin Couplings in Organotin(IV) Derivatives: A DFT Study
2009
The empirical Karplus-type dependence of (3)J((119)Sn,(13)C) and (3)J((119)Sn,(1)H) couplings in organotin(IV) derivatives has been computationally validated by DFT methods both at the nonrelativistic and scalar ZORA relativistic level. A preliminary calibration of the computational protocols, by comparing experimental and calculated couplings for a Set Of Suitable rigid molecules, revealed their high predictive power: in particular, relativistic results for (3)J((119)Sn,(13)C) have a mean absolute error of just above 2 Hz, over a range of values up to about 70 Hz. The latter protocol has then been used to study in detail the influence of substituents and multiple paths connecting the coupl…