A DFT Study on (001) Thin Slabs of SrTiO_3 and BaTiO_3

• Authors: T. Mahmoodi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, we studied the relaxation of (001) surface of BaTiO_3 and SrTiO_3 slabs with two termination surfaces and with 3, 5, and 7 layers thickness for each cases, using density functional theory and generalized gradient approximation for exchange-correlation functional and pseudo potential method. We calculated the slab energy and the rate of expansion and contraction of the layers and compare them for different thicknesses. Band structure and density of states for these slabs and for BaTiO_3 and SrTiO_3 bulk were computed to find out the variation of band gap with respect to slab thickness. It is found that in comparison with bulk, in TiO_2 slabs of both materials gap size decreases while in SrO and BaO slabs it increases.

Keywords

EN

31.15.A-; 31.15.E-; 82.45.Mp

Discipline

• 31.15.E-: Density-functional theory
• 31.15.A-: Ab initiocalculations
• 82.45.Mp: Thin layers, films, monolayers, membranes(for anodic films, see 82.45.Cc; for surface double layers, see 73.30.+y in electronic structure of surfaces)

• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 127
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1616-1620

Dates

published

2015-06

received

2014-07-10

Contributors

author

T. Mahmoodi

• Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.127.1616