Journal
COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 142, Issue -, Pages 285-289Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.10.013
Keywords
Manganese monosilicide; High pressure; Structural evolution; CALYPSO method
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51374132, 11304167, 21671114]
- Program for Science AMP
- Technology Innovation Talents in Universities of Henan Province [15HASTIT020]
- Special Program for Applied Research on Super Computation of the NSFC-Guangdong Joint Fund [U1501501]
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To explore the structure and phase stabilities of transition metal silicides under high pressure, we report a systematic study of the high-pressure structural evolution of MnSi using the CALYPSO structure searching method and first-principles calculations. A novel cubic Pm-3m-structured MnSi with a MnSi8 cube environment is uncovered. Upon increasing the pressure to 41.91 GPa, the cubic epsilon-FeSi-type MnSi transforms into a CsCl structure. Both the epsilon-FeSi and CsCl phases are shown to be mechanically and dynamically stable. The density of states, electron localization function and Bader charge analysis suggest that both phases of MnSi possess dominant covalent bonding character. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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