The energetics and structure of rutile TiO(2)(110)
A Kiejna1, T Pabisiak, S W Gao
1Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Wrocław, Plac M Borna 9, PL-50-204 Wrocław, Poland.
Abstract:
Density functional theory and a pseudopotential plane wave method are applied to study electronic and structural properties of the defect-free TiO(2)(110) surface. The variations of the surface energy, work function, and atomic displacements are examined for partially and fully relaxed slabs modelling the rutile (110) surface, and consisting of up to 33 atomic layers. Relatively small relaxations of atomic positions in the outermost layers have a strong influence on the calculated surface energies and work functions. The effect of nonequivalence of the odd-even layer terminations is explored. A simple method is proposed which allows one to estimate accurate surface energies for relaxed systems from calculations for partially relaxed slabs.
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