Electronic structure and mechanical properties of Sc 3AC (A = Al, Ga, In, Tl) and Sc 3BN(B = Al, In): Ab-initio study

V, Kanchana and Ram, S (2012) Electronic structure and mechanical properties of Sc 3AC (A = Al, Ga, In, Tl) and Sc 3BN(B = Al, In): Ab-initio study. Intermetallics, 23. pp. 39-48. ISSN 0966-9795

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Abstract

Systematic first principles calculations have been carried out to study the electronic structure and elastic properties of ternary scandium based antiperovskite carbides and nitrides. The calculated ground state properties agree well with the experimental and other theoretical results. The elastic constants are predicted from which all the related mechanical properties are calculated. From the analysis of the ratio of bulk modulus to shear modulus, we conclude that the above mentioned antiperovskites are brittle in nature with a considerable elastic anisotropy. The band structure shows a pronounced hybridization of Sc-d states with the p states of C or N at the Fermi level. It is observed that the changes brought about in the mechanical properties of Sc-based cubic inverse perovskites when replacing C by N are less pronounced than that for the Ti based antiperovskite carbides and nitrides, where it is quite noticeable. A possible reason for the change in behavior is also analyzed

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Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Intermetallics; B. Elastic properties; E. Ab-initio calculations; E. Electronic structure; E. Mechanical properties
Subjects: Physics
Divisions: Department of Physics
Depositing User: Team Library
Date Deposited: 14 Nov 2014 07:13
Last Modified: 14 Aug 2017 07:32
URI: http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/780
Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intermet.2011.12.014
OA policy: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0966-9795/
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