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Co 2 CrAl Heuslerene: Mechanical, Thermodynamic and Electronic Properties.

Authors :
Boochani, Arash
Asshabi, Moein
Khodadadi, Jabbar
Sartipi, Elmira
Jamal, Morteza
Sabbagzadeh, Jamshid
Shahrokhi, Masoud
Amiri, Malieheh
Yari, Arash
Solaymani, Shahram
Sari, Amir hossein
Jalali-Asadabadi, Saeid
Source :
Metals (2075-4701); Mar2023, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p582, 19p
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

This work investigates the ground state's stability of the bulk and three Heuslerene Co<subscript>2</subscript>CrAl compounds, named as α, β, and γ phases, by density functional theory (DFT) with the generalized gradient approximation (GGA), GGA+U, and GGA+U+mBJ approximations. The results demonstrate the ground state stability of all mentioned cases since they pass the thermodynamic, elastic, and phonon stability tests. All three structures are more stable in the ferromagnetic phase than the antiferromagnetic phase. In the β phase, Young's and Shear's moduli were 73.97 GPa and 24.83 GPa, respectively. The thermodynamic diagram has shown existence of the accessible region, which indicates the possibility of making this structure. For all three structures, the phonon branches in the symmetry paths are positive, which represent the complete dynamic stability of these compositions in the presence of mechanical stresses and thermal vibrations. According to the electronic calculations, the bulk phase of Co<subscript>2</subscript>CrAl is a half-metal with 3μ<subscript>B</subscript> magnetic moment and 100% spin polarization at the Fermi level. Furthermore, all imposed approximations approve that α and γ Heuslerenes are metal for both spin directions, while the GGA+U+mBJ approximation indicates that β phase is a ferromagnetic half-metal of 1μ<subscript>B</subscript> magnetic moment. Based on the electron density diagrams, the highest (lowest) amount of electron density is created on the α (β) phase surface. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20754701
Volume :
13
Issue :
3
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Metals (2075-4701)
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
162872265
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/met13030582