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arXiv 2008.06582cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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通过外延应变获得稳定的极性氮氧化物

Stable Polar Oxynitrides through Epitaxial Strain

Li Zhu, Hiroyuki Takenaka, R. E. Cohen

摘要:

我们通过基于群体智能的结构预测方法、密度泛函晶格动力学和第一性原理分子动力学研究了ABO $_2$ N氮氧化物的能量有利结构随压力和应变的变化。我们预测了几种在高压下结晶稳定的极性氧氮化物钙钛矿。此外,我们发现钙钛矿结构的氮氧化物的铁电极性相可以是结晶稳定的,并在高压下在适当的衬底上合成。铁电氮氧化物在环境压力下外延应变下的动力学稳定性也意味着使用脉冲激光沉积或其他原子层沉积方法合成它们的可能性。我们的研究结果对进一步探索其他氮氧化物材料也具有广泛的意义。我们进行了第一性原理分子动力学,发现YSiO $_2$ N的极性钙钛矿是亚稳态至少600 K下的压缩外延应变转换到稳定的硅灰石样结构之前。YSiO $_2$ N在具有外延应变的压力下稳定。我们预测LaSi $_2$ N、LaGeO $_2$ N、BiSiO $_2$ N和BiGeO $_2$ N在零压力下即使没有外延应变也是亚稳态的铁电钙钛矿。

英文摘要:

We investigate energetically favorable structures of ABO$_2$N oxynitrides as functions of pressure and strain via swarm-intelligence-based structure prediction methods, DFT lattice dynamics and first-principles molecular dynamics. We predict several thermodynamically stable polar oxynitride perovskites under high pressures. In addition, we find that ferroelectric polar phases of perovskite-structured oxynitrides can be thermodynamically stable and synthesized at high pressure on appropriate substrates. The dynamical stability of the ferroelectric oxynitrides under epitaxial strain at ambient pressure also imply the possibility to synthesize them using pulsed laser deposition or other atomic layer deposition methods. Our results have broad implications for further exploration of other oxynitride materials as well. We performed first-principles molecular dynamics and find that the polar perovskite of YSiO$_2$N is metastable up to at least 600 K under compressive epitaxial strain before converting to the stable wollastonite-like structures. YSiO$_2$N is stabilized under pressure with extensional epitaxial strain. We predict that LaSi$_2$N, LaGeO$_2$N, BiSiO$_2$N, and BiGeO$_2$N are metastable as ferroelectric perovskites at zero pressure even without epitaxial strain.

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