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了解过程相关属性(如小规模不均匀性)的起源是材料优化的关键。
该文近期发表于npj Computational Materials 4: 73 (2018),英文标题与摘要如下,点击左下角“阅读原文”可以自由获取论文PDF。
Unexpectedly large energy variations from dopant interactions in ferroelectric HfO2from high-throughput ab initio calculations
Max Falkowski, Christopher Künneth, Robin Materlik & Alfred Kersch
Insight into the origin of process-related propertieslike small-scale inhomogeneities is key for material optimization. Here, weanalyze DFT calculations of randomly doped HfO2 structures withSi, La, and VO and relate them to the kind of productionprocess. Total energies of the relevant ferroelectric Pbc21 phaseare compared with the competing crystallographic phases under the influence ofthe arising local inhomogeneities in a coarse-grained approach. The interactionamong dopants adds to the statistical effect from the random positioning of thedopants. In anneals after atomic layer or chemical solution depositionprocesses, which are short compared to ceramic process tempering, the largeenergy variations remain because the dopants do not diffuse. Since the energydifference is the criterion for the phase stability, the large variationsuggests the possibility of nanoregions and diffuse phase transitions becausethese local doping effects may move the system over the paraelectric-ferroelectricphase boundary.
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