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Si基和Ge基笼形化合物中空位的形成:电子局域化和对称性破缺的作用

Formation of Vacancies in Si- and Ge-based Clathrates: Role of Electron Localization and Symmetry Breaking

Amrita Bhattacharya, Christian Carbogno, Bodo Boehme, Michael Baitinger, Yuri Grin, Matthias Scheffler

摘要:

用密度泛函理论研究了Si基和Ge基I型笼形化合物中骨架空位的形成与K和Ba原子填充笼的关系。我们的分析揭示了结构无序,几何弛豫,电子饱和,以及振动和构型熵的相关性。在Si笼形物中,我们发现空位是不稳定的,但非常不同的是,在Ge笼形物中,每个晶胞最多可以稳定三个空位。这种对比行为主要是由填充电子空位态的不同能量增益驱动的,这源于Si和Ge的价轨道的不同程度的局部化。这也促使了一个质的不同的原子弛豫的框架。

英文摘要:

The formation of framework vacancies in Si- and Ge-based type-I clathrates is studied as function of filling the cages with K and Ba atoms using density-functional theory. Our analysis reveals the relevance of structural disorder, geometric relaxation, electronic saturation, as well as vibrational and configurational entropy. In the Si clathrates we find that vacancies are unstable, but very differently, in Ge clathrates up to three vacancies per unit cell can be stabilized. This contrasting behavior is largely driven by the different energy gain on populating the electronic vacancy states, which originates from the different degree of localization of the valence orbitals of Si and Ge. This also actuates a qualitatively different atomic relaxation of the framework.

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