INVESTIGADORES
SEPLIARSKY Marcelo Claudio
artículos
Título:
Ab initio supported model simulations of ferroelectric perovskites
Autor/es:
M. SEPLIARSKY; M. G. STACHIOTTI; R. L. MIGONI
Revista:
COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 1998 vol. 10 p. 51 - 56
ISSN:
0927-0256
Resumen:
While ferroelectric KNbO3 and BaTiO3 present the cubic-tetragonal-orthorhombic-rhombohedral phase sequence with decreasing T, their related compounds KTaO3 and SrTiO3
are incipient ferroelectrics which exhibit the ferroelectric soft mode
but remain paraelectric up to 0 K. Despite the large amount of research
attracted by the above phenomenology since long ago, quite a few
realistic model simulations are available. Many lattice dynamical
calculations have been performed for each isolated material, but the
only unified view of their ferroelectric behavior has been provided by
the nonlinear oxygen polarizability model. Although initially based on
phonon data for the cubic phase, recent ab initio calculations confirm
that the model is basically correct with regards to the energetics
involved in the various ferroelectric distortions in KNbO3.
Our molecular dynamics simulations show the crossover from a soft mode
to an order-disorder dynamics in the cubic phase of KNbO3, the appearance of its various ferroelectric phases, and the soft-mode behavior of KTaO3.