Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2001-08-29
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
10 pages, with 4 postscript figures embedded. Uses REVTEX and epsf macros. Also available at http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.65.075105
We have performed a first-principles study of the structural and vibrational properties of the three low-pressure (cubic, tetragonal, and especially monoclinic) phases of ZrO2, with special attention to the computation of the zone-center phonon modes and related dielectric properties. The calculations have been carried out within the local-density approximation using ultrasoft pseudopotentials and a plane-wave basis. The fully relaxed structural parameters are found to be in excellent agreement with experimental data and with previous theoretical work. The total-energy calculations correctly reproduce the energetics of the ZrO2 phases, and the calculated zone-center phonon frequencies yield good agreement with the infrared and Raman experimental frequencies in the monoclinic phase. The Born effective charge tensors are computed and, together with the mode eigenvectors, used to decompose the lattice dielectric susceptibility tensor into contributions arising from individual infrared-active phonon modes. This work has been partially motivated by the potential for ZrO2 to replace SiO2 as the gate-dielectric material in modern integrated-circuit technology.
Vanderbilt David
Zhao Xinyuan
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