Structural and Magnetic Properties of Trigonal Iron

Details Structural and Magnetic Properties of Trigonal Iron Structural and Magnetic Properties of Trigonal Iron

1995-06-30

arxiv.org/abs/mtrl-th/9506009v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

11 pages, RevTeX,4 tar'd,compressed, uuencoded Postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.53.5119

First principles calculations of the electronic structure of trigonal iron were performed using density function theory. The results are used to predict lattice spacings, magnetic moments and elastic properties; these are in good agreement with experiment for both the bcc and fcc structures. We find however, that in extracting these quantities great care must be taken in interpreting numerical fits to the calculated total energies. In addition, the results for bulk iron give insight into the properties of thin iron films. Thin films grown on substrates with mismatched lattice constants often have non-cubic symmetry. If they are thicker than a few monolayers their electronic structure is similar to a bulk material with an appropriately distorted geometry, as in our trigonal calculations. We recast our bulk results in terms of an iron film grown on the (111) surface of an fcc substrate, and find the predicted strain energies and moments accurately reflect the trends for iron growth on a variety of substrates.

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