Density functional studies of selected metal dioxides
Density functional studies of selected metal dioxides
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jpcs.2013.06.007
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发表时间：
2013-11
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
B. Szpunar;J. Szpunar
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作者：
B. Szpunar;J. Szpunar
This study investigates the optical properties of selected metal oxides due to their high dielectric constants. The local-spin-density approximation plus HubbardU(commonly called LDA+U) is used in a study of the structural, mechanical and optical properties of UO2. The inclusion of a HubbardUcorrection to 5f electrons of uranium changes UO2from a metal to an insulator and, therefore, has a dramatic effect on the localisation of the electron spin and charge density of uranium. However although the band gap can be reproduced using the effectiveUparameter, which is equal to 3.5 eV and optical properties were calculated in our previous work, it is difficult to calculate ionic contribution to the static dielectric constant within LDA+Uformalism for this compound. It is shown in the present work that the electronic structures of both ceria and thoria exhibit similarities to urania within LDA or PBE functional implementations. Within this functional and linear response theory one can easily calculate static dielectric permittivity and it is shown that in agreement with experiment the predicted values are an order of magnitude larger than the dielectric constant of SiO2. In this work, high accuracy, first-principles calculations are also used to compare properties of urania versus ceria and thoria and how these similarities can help in understanding these compounds. It is also shown that the B3LYP functional predicts slightly overestimated band gaps for ceria and thoria as well as smaller than experimentally observed electronic contribution to the static dielectric constant, while the index of refraction is well reproduced for thoria.
