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Published on: October 12, 2019
First-principles study of structural and elastic properties of monoclinic and orthorhombic BiMnO3
Zhi-Gang Mei1, Shun-Li Shang, Yi Wang
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Abstract:
The structural and elastic properties of BiMnO(3) with monoclinic (C 2/c) and orthorhombic (Pnma) ferromagnetic (FM) structures have been studied by first-principles calculations within LDA + U and GGA + U approaches. The equilibrium volumes and bulk moduli of BiMnO(3) phases are evaluated by equation of state (EOS) fittings, and the bulk properties predicted by LDA + U calculations are in better agreement with experiment. The orthorhombic phase is found to be more stable than the monoclinic phase at ambient pressure. A monoclinic to monoclinic phase transition is predicted to occur at a pressure of about 10 GPa, which is ascribed to magnetism versus volume instability of monoclinic BiMnO(3). The single-crystal elastic stiffness constants c(ij)s of the monoclinic and orthorhombic phases are investigated using the stress-strain method. The c(46) of the monoclinic phase is predicted to be negative. 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 the calculated elastic constants. The presently predicted phase transition and elastic properties open new directions for investigation of the phase transitions in BiMnO(3), and provide helpful guidance for the future elastic constant measurements.
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