Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2003-01-02
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
6 pages, with 3 postscript figures embedded. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2002 MRS Fall Meeting. Also av
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Using density-functional theory with ultrasoft pseudopotentials, we previously investigated the structural and electronic properties of the low-pressure (cubic, tetragonal, and monoclinic) phases of ZrO2 and HfO2, in order to elucidate phonon modes, Born effective charge tensors, and especially the lattice dielectric response in these phases. We now extend this previous work by carrying out similar calculations on the two high-pressure orthorhombic phases, and by providing density-of-states and band-gap information on all polymorphs. Our results show that the electronic structures and dielectric responses are strongly phase-dependent. In particular, the monoclinic phases of ZrO2 and HfO2 are found to have a strongly anisotropic dielectric tensor and a rather small orientational average (epsilon_0) compared to the two other low-pressure phases. Our calculations show that epsilon_0 is even smaller in the orthorhombic phases.
Vanderbilt David
Zhao Xinyuan
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