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Full Potential, Total Energy Lmto Calculation of Interface Structure in Ti-C and W-C Superlattices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

David L. Price  and
Bernard R. Cooper
David L. Price
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506
Bernard R. Cooper
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506
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Abstract

We discuss calculations of the electronic and crystallographic structure at the interfaces of titanium-carbon and tungsten-carbon superlattices. Specifically, we present total energy calculations for an arrangement of atoms designed to allow direct investigation of the competition between the formation of M-C bonds and C-C bonds. We conclude that the equilibrium structure is dominated by C-C bonding and so find that the interface has a graphite-like atomic arrangement rather than a carbide-like arrangement. These total energy calculations have been performed using a recently developed self-consistent linear combination of muffin-tin orbitals electronic structure method. This is a full-potential, all-electron, variation on standard LMTO electronic structure methods and, along with careful self-consistent determination of the parameters involved, allows accurate total energy calculations of the type of low symmetry systems involved in this study.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 141: Symposium T – Atomic Scale Calculations in Materials Science , 1988 , 393
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989

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