A comparison study of the structural electronic, elastic and lattice dynamic properties of ZrInAu and ZrSnPt
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Sinem Erden Gulebaglan
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Emel Kilit Dogan
Abstract
To estimate the structural, electronic, elastic and dynamic properties of ZrInAu and ZrSnPt compounds, the density functional theory within the general gradient approximation was used. The computed lattice parameters, bulk modulus and the derivation of bulk modulus with respect to pressure were displayed and compared with the theoretical result. The indirect band gap for ZrInAu was found to be 0.48 eV, and for ZrSnPt the indirect band gap was found as 1.01 eV. Elastic stiffness constants, bulk, shear and Young’s module, Poisson’s coefficients and Zener anisotropy factor are calculated. Elastic properties showed that the ZrSnPt compound is more durable than the ZrInAu compound. Phonon distribution curves and density of states were investigated using a density functional perturbation theory. Both ZrInAu and ZrSnPt compounds were demonstrated to be dynamically stable. The results of this study were obtained for the first time in the literature. These results will make an important contribution to the literature.
Author contribution: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Atomic, Molecular & Chemical Physics
- Nonhomogeneous multicolor laser beams optimization to obtain a stronger intensity single harmonic radiation path
- Dynamical Systems & Nonlinear Phenomena
- Predator-dependent transmissible disease spreading in prey under Holling type-II functional response
- Static and dynamic performances of ferrofluid lubricated long journal bearing
- Solid State Physics & Materials Science
- Nonreciprocal transmission in a parity-time symmetry system with two types of defects
- First principles study of the structural, electronic, optical and thermodynamic properties of cubic quaternary AlxIn1−xPyBi1−y alloys
- Ultrasound-assisted green biosynthesis of ZnO nanoparticles and their photocatalytic application
- Pressure dependent ultrasonic properties of hcp hafnium metal
- A comparison study of the structural electronic, elastic and lattice dynamic properties of ZrInAu and ZrSnPt
