Phonon and Elastic Instabilities in MoC and MoN

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1999-06-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9906281v1

Physical Review B (Condensed Matter); 1 Feb. 2000; vol.61, no.5, p.3151-4

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

5 pages and 4 trailing figures. Submitted to PRB

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.61.3151

We present several results related to the instability of MoC and MoN in the B1 (sodium chloride) structure. These compounds were proposed as potential superconductors with moderately high transition temperatures. We show that the elastic instability in B1-structure MoN, demonstrated several years ago, persists at elevated pressures, thus offering little hope of stabilizing this material without chemical doping. For MoC, another material for which stoichiometric fabrication in the B1-structure has not proven possible, we find that all of the cubic elastic constants are positive, indicating elastic stability. Instead, we find X-point phonon instabilities in MoC (and in MoN as well), further illustrating the rich behavior of carbo-nitride materials. We also present additional electronic structure results for several transition metal (Zr, Nb and Mo) carbo-nitride systems and discuss systematic trends in the properties of these materials. Deviations from strict electron counting dependencies are apparent.

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