Effects of scandium composition on the structural, electronic, and thermodynamic properties of SCxY1-x metallic alloys

The aim of this work is to analyse the compositional dependence of the structural, electronic and thermodynamic properties of alloys. Density functional calculations have been carried out to reveal compositional dependence of the structural, electronic and thermodynamic properties of alloys. The lat...

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Autores:
López Pérez, William
Castro Diago, P.
Ramirez Montes, Luz Mery
González García, Alvaro
González Hernández, Rafael J.
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2016
Institución:
Corporación Universidad de la Costa
Repositorio:
REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/982
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/11323/982
https://doi.org/10.1080/14786435.2016.1140915
https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
Palabra clave:
Density functional calculations
electronic structure
metallic alloys
thermodynamic properties
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Summary:The aim of this work is to analyse the compositional dependence of the structural, electronic and thermodynamic properties of alloys. Density functional calculations have been carried out to reveal compositional dependence of the structural, electronic and thermodynamic properties of alloys. The lattice constants of the binary compounds are in fairly good agreement with the available experimental data. The variation of calculated lattice constant with scandium concentration is almost linear, and shows a slight deviation from Vegards law. The effect of scandium composition on bulk modulus gives nonlinear dependence on concentration x. A small deviation of the bulk modulus from linear concentration dependence was observed. The metallic nature of binary precursor compounds ScP and YP was confirmed. Our findings indicate that the alloys are metallic for 0.25, 0.5, 0.75. The calculated excess mixing enthalpy is positive over the entire scandium composition range. The positive mixing enthalpies indicate meta-stability of the alloys at high temperatures. The effect of temperature on the volume, bulk modulus, Debye temperature and the heat capacity for alloys were analysed using the quasi-harmonic Debye model. Results show that the heat capacity is slightly sensitive to composition as temperature increases.