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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
卷 27, 期 24, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/27/24/245901
关键词
ScAlN; piezoelectricity; nitride; berry phase; polarization
We present a computational study of spontaneous polarization and piezoelectricity in ScxAl1-xN alloys in the compositional range from x = 0 to x = 0.5, obtained in the context of density functional theory and the Berry-phase theory of electric polarization using large periodic supercells. We report composition-dependent values of piezoelectric coefficients e(ij), piezoelectric moduli d(ij) and elastic constants C-ij. The theoretical findings are complemented with experimental measurement of e(33) for a series of sputtered ScAlN films carried out with a piezoelectric resonator. The rapid increase with Sc content of the piezoelectric response reported in previous studies is confirmed for the available data. A detailed description of the full methodology required to calculate the piezoelectric properties of ScAlN, with application to other complex alloys, is presented. In particular, we find that the large amount of internal strain present in ScAlN and its intricate relation with electric polarization make configurational sampling and the use of large supercells at different compositions necessary in order to accurately derive the piezoelectric response of the material.
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