CALCULATION OF THE ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF CUBIC MG2NIH4
CALCULATION OF THE ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF CUBIC MG2NIH4
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevb.59.11746
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发表时间:
1999-05
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
G. Garcia;J. Abriata;J. Sofo
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作者:
G. Garcia;J. Abriata;J. Sofo
The electronic, structural, and stability properties of the cubic hydride Mg 2 NiH 4 are analyzed based on ab initio total-energy calculations. We evaluate the electronic band structures, density of states, charge-density distributions, and bond character for different hydrogen configurations. The hydrogen distribution that minimizes the total energy corresponds to a tetrahedrally distorted square-planar coordination of the nickel atoms with a Ni-H bond length of 1.548 Å, in good agreement with neutron-diffraction experimental data. The evaluation of the relative stabilities of Mg 2 NiH 4 and other hypothetical compounds of composition Mg 2 NiH δ (δ= 0, 2, 4, 6) agree with the observation that essentially stoichiometric Mg 2 NiH 4 is the only phase present in the equilibrium phase diagram of the Mg-Ni-H system.