Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2009-03-06
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Submitted to PRB; 16 pages, 11 figures
Scientific paper
We present an efficient and general method to identify promising candidate configurations for thin-film oxides and to determine structural characteristics of (metastable) thin-film structures using ab initio calculations. At the heart of this method is the complexity of the oxide bulk structure, from which a large number of thin films with structural building blocks, that is motifs, from metastable bulk oxide systems can be extracted. These span a coarse but well-defined network of initial configurations for which density functional theory (DFT) calculations predict and implement dramatic atomic relaxations in the corresponding, resulting thin-film candidates. The network of thin-film candidates (for various film thicknesses and stoichiometries) can be ordered according to their variation in ab initio total energy or in ab initio equilibrium Gibbs free energy. Analysis of the relaxed atomic structures for the most favored structures gives insight into the nature of stable and metastable thin-film oxides. We investigate ultrathin alumina nucleated on TiC as a model system to illustrate this method.
Hyldgaard Per
Rohrer Jochen
Ruberto Carlo
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