Thermodynamic ground states of platinum metal nitrides

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2010-09-02

arxiv.org/abs/1009.0458v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 095501 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.095005

The thermodynamic stabilities of various phases of the nitrides of the platinum metal elements are systematically studied using density functional theory. It is shown that for the nitrides of Rh, Pd, Ir and Pt two new crystal structures, in which the metal ions occupy simple tetragonal lattice sites, have lower formation enthalpies at ambient conditions than any previously proposed structures. The region of stability with respect to those structures extends to 17 GPa for PtN2. Calculations show that the PtN2 simple tetragonal structures at this pressure are thermodynamically stable also with respect to phase separation. The fact that the local density and generalized gradient approximations predict different values of the absolute formation enthalpies as well different relative stabilities between simple tetragonal and the pyrite or marcasite structures are further discussed.

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