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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 35, Pages 10929-10936Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201200180
Keywords
barium; lead; lone pairs; phonons; sulfides
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Recently, we have investigated the energy landscape of PbS for many different pressures on the ab initio level by using HartreeFock and density functional theory to globally search for possible thermodynamically stable and metastable structures. The perhaps most fascinating observation was that besides the experimentally known modification exhibiting the rock salt structure a second minimum exists close-by on the landscape showing the low-temperature a-GeTe-type structure. In the present study, we investigate the possible reasons for the existence of this metastable modification; in particular we address the question, whether the a-GeTe-type modification might be stabilized (and conversely the rock salt modification destabilized) by steric effects of the non-bonding electron pair.
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