High pressure study of structural and electronic properties of calcium chalcogenides
High pressure study of structural and electronic properties of calcium chalcogenides
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DOI：
10.1088/0953-8984/17/26/008
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发表时间：
2005-07-06
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2.7
通讯作者：
Bouarissa, N
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作者：
Charifi, Z;Baaziz, H;Bouarissa, N
The structural and electronic properties of calcium chalcogenides CaX (X = S, Se, Te) under high pressure have been investigated using the full potential linearized augmented plane wave method within density functional theory. We used both the local density approximation and the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) that is based on exchange-correlation energy optimization for calculating the total energy. Moreover, the Engel-Vosko GGA formalism is applied so as to optimize the corresponding potential for band structure calculations. The equilibrium lattice constant for CaX compounds agrees well with the experimental results. The pressures at which these compounds undergo a structural phase transition from NaCl-type to CsCl-type were calculated. A numerical first-principles calculation of the elastic constants was used to calculate C-11, C-12 and C-44. The energy band gaps at ambient conditions in the NaCl-type structure and the volume dependence of band gaps in the CsCl-type structure up to the band overlap metallization were investigated. Besides this, the nature of the chemical bond in these compounds was analysed in terms of electronic charge density.
