HEMZALOVÁ, Pavlína, Martin FRIÁK, Mojmír ŠOB, D. MA, A. UDYANSKY, D. RAABE and J. NEUGEBAUER. Ab initio study of thermodynamic, electronic, magnetic, structural, and elastic properties of Ni4N allotropes. Physical Review B. American Physical Society, 2013, vol. 88, No 17, p. "nestránkováno", 13 pp. ISSN 1098-0121. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.174103.
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Original name Ab initio study of thermodynamic, electronic, magnetic, structural, and elastic properties of Ni4N allotropes
Authors HEMZALOVÁ, Pavlína (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Martin FRIÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Mojmír ŠOB (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), D. MA (276 Germany), A. UDYANSKY (276 Germany), D. RAABE (276 Germany) and J. NEUGEBAUER (276 Germany).
Edition Physical Review B, American Physical Society, 2013, 1098-0121.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10302 Condensed matter physics
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 3.664
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14740/13:00066530
Organization unit Central European Institute of Technology
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.174103
UT WoS 000326819300001
Keywords in English Ab initio; properties of Ni4N; crystallophic phases;
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Abstract
We have employed parameter-free density functional theory calculations to study the thermodynamic stability and structural parameters as well as elastic and electronic properties of Ni4N in eight selected crystallographic phases. In agreement with the experimental findings, the cubic structure with Pearson symbol cP5, space group Pm3m (221) is found to be the most stable and it is also the only thermodynamically stable structure at T = 0 K with respect to decomposition to the elemental Ni crystal and N2 gas phase. We determine structural parameters, bulk moduli, and their pressure derivatives for all eight allotropes. The thermodynamic stability and bulk modulus is shown to be anticorrelated. Comparing ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic states, we find common features between the magnetism of elemental Ni and studied ferromagnetic Ni4N structures. For the ground-state Ni4N structure and other two Ni4N cubic allotropes, we predict a complete set of single-crystalline elastic constants (in the equilibrium and under hydrostatic pressure), the Young and area moduli, as well as homogenized polycrystalline elastic moduli obtained by different homogenization methods.We demonstrate that the elastic anisotropy of the ground-state Ni4N is qualitatively opposite to that in the elemental Ni, i.e., these materials have hard and soft crystallographic directions interchanged. Moreover, one of the studied metastable cubic phases is found auxetic, i.e., exhibiting negative Poisson ratio.
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ED1.1.00/02.0068, research and development projectName: CEITEC - central european institute of technology
GD106/09/H035, research and development projectName: Víceúrovňový design pokrokových materiálů
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
LD12037, research and development projectName: Studium bimetalických magnetických klastrů a nanodrátů z prvních principů (Acronym: BIMETAL)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
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