A first-principles study on the structural, elastic, electronic, and optical properties of CdRh2O4

作者:Guo L; Zhang S T*; Feng W J; Hu G
来源:Journal of Materials Science, 2014, 49(3): 1205-1214.
DOI:10.1007/s10853-013-7802-y

摘要

The structural, elastic, electronic, and optical properties of CdRh2O4 with cubic and orthorhombic (Pnma) structures have been investigated using a pseudopotential plane wave (PP-PW) method within the local density approximation (LDA). The calculated lattice parameters agree reasonably with the experimental values. The single-crystal elastic stiffness constants C (ij) s of the cubic and orthorhombic phases are investigated using the stress-strain method. In addition, the polycrystalline elastic properties including bulk modulus, shear modulus, Young's modulus, bulk modulus-shear modulus ratio, Poisson's ratio, and elastic anisotropy ratio are determined based on Voigt-Reuss-Hill approach. The use of the hybrid functional sX-LDA leads to considerably improved electronic properties compared to standard LDA approach. On the other hand, the dielectric function, refraction index, reflectivity, conductivity function, and energy-loss spectra were obtained and analyzed on the basis of electronic band structures and density of states.