1. Structural and magnetic properties of TlTF3 (T=Fe, Co and Ni) by hybrid functional theory.
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Zeb, Raham, Ali, Zahid, Ahmad, Iftikhar, and Khan, Imad
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IRON compounds , *MAGNETIC properties of metals , *MAGNETIC structure , *DENSITY functional theory , *MAGNETOELECTRONICS , *PEROVSKITE - Abstract
DFT studies are performed to investigate the structural, mechanical and magneto-electronic properties of the TlTF 3 (T=Fe, Co and Ni) perovskites for the first time using GGA, GGA+U and hybrid density functional theory (HF). Our calculations show that HF give better results than GGA and GGA+U and more consistent with the experiments. The comparison of the lattice constants calculated by HF with experiments shows a maximum underestimation less than 0.2%. The chemical bonding between different ions in these compounds is explained on the bases of electronic clouds, which reveals that in TlFeF 3 , Fe has more ionic character with F than the rest. The mechanical properties explain the hardness of these compounds and show that TlFeF 3 is more ductile. Spin-dependent electronic band profiles show that TlFeF 3 and TlCoF 3 are metallic, whereas TlNiF 3 is pseudo direct wide bandgap semiconductor. The stable magnetic phase optimizations and the calculated magnetic susceptibility confirm that TlFeF 3 and TlNiF 3 are ferromagnetic whereas TlCoF 3 is anti-ferromagnetic material. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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