Published June 15, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

First-principles study of structural, elastic and high-pressure properties of cerium chalcogenides

  • 1. Departement de Physique, Faculte des Sciences, Universite Ferhat Abbes, 19000 Setif (Algeria)
  • 2. Laboratoire de Physique Quantique et de Modelisation Mathematique (LPQ3M), Departement de Technologie, Universite de Mascara, 29000 Mascara (Algeria)
  • 3. Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musee 09, Fribourg Ch-1700 (Switzerland)

Description

A theoretical study of structural, elastic and high-pressure properties of cubic CeS, CeSe and CeTe is presented, using the full-potential augmented plane wave method plus local orbitals (FP-APW+lo) as implanted in the WIEN2K code. In this approach, the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) is used for the exchange-correlation (XC) potential. Results are given for lattice constant, bulk modulus, its pressure derivative and elastic constants for both NaCl- and CsCl-type structures. The pressure transition at which these compounds undergo structural phase transition from NaCl-B1 to CsCl-B2 phases are also calculated

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2005.03.029;
PII
S0921-4526(05)00645-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
363
Journal Issue
1-4
Journal Page Range
p. 255-261
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

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