Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 61, Issue 1, Pages 371-378Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2012.10.002
Keywords
Copper tungstate; Antiferromagnetic; Ab initio calculations; Electronic band structure; Lattice dynamics
Funding
- ESF [2009/0202/1DP/1.1.1.2.0/09/APIA/VIAA/141]
- Latvian Government [09.1518]
- Latvian National Research Program IMIS
- European Community [226716, I-20110160 EC]
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The electronic, structural and phonon properties of antiferromagnetic triclinic CuWO4 have been studied using the first-principles spin-polarized linear combination of atomic orbital (LCAO) calculations based on the hybrid exchange correlation density functional (DFT)/Hartree-Fock (HF) scheme. In addition, the local atomic structure around both Cu and W atoms has been probed using extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy. We show that, by using the hybrid DFT HF functional, one can accurately and simultaneously describe the atomic structure (the unit cell parameters and the atomic fractional coordinates), the band gap and the phonon frequencies. In agreement with our EXAFS results, the LCAO calculations reproduce a strong distortion of both the CuO6 and the WO6 octahedra, which occur due to the first-order and second-order Jahn-Teller effects, respectively. We found that the HF admixture of 13-16%, which is implemented in the PBE0-13% and WCGGA-PBE-16% functionals, produces the best result for CuWO4. The calculated properties agree well with the available experimental data provided by diffraction, optical, X-ray photoelectron and Raman spectroscopies. (C) 2012 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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