High-Pressure Phase Transitions of PbTe Using the First-Principles Calculations
High-pressure structural phase transitions in PbTe are investigated by means of the first principles total energy calculations within the generalized gradient approximation (GOAl and local density approximation CLDA) by using the density functional theory. First principle calculation shows that PbTe...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Chinese physics letters 2015, Vol.32 (1), p.100-103 |
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Zusammenfassung: | High-pressure structural phase transitions in PbTe are investigated by means of the first principles total energy calculations within the generalized gradient approximation (GOAl and local density approximation CLDA) by using the density functional theory. First principle calculation shows that PbTe is stable with the NaCl-type (B1) structure under amSient conditions and transforms to the CsCl-type (B2) structure under high pressure via an intermediate phase. Two candidate structures of the intermediate phase, namely Prima and Cmcm, are chosen for total energy calculations and discussed. It indicates that the intermediate phase adopts the Pnma structure rather than the Cmcm structure, and lattice parameters of the Pnma phase calculated by using OGA and LDA are in consistent with experimental results. |
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ISSN: | 0256-307X 1741-3540 |
DOI: | 10.1088/0256-307X/32/1/016101 |