Beryllium carbide as diffusion barrier against Cu: First-principles study

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ab593e

Abstract Beryllium carbide is used in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) capsule ablation material due to its low atomic number, low opacity, and high melting point properties. We used the method of climbing image nudged elastic band (CINEB) to calculate the diffusion barrier of copper atom in the crystal of beryllium and beryllium carbide. The diffusion barrier of copper atom in crystal beryllium is only 0.79 eV, and the barrier in beryllium carbide is larger than 2.85 eV. The three structures of beryllium carbide:anti-fluorite Be₂C, Be₂C-I, and Be₂C-III have a good blocking effect to the diffusion of copper atom. Among them, the Be₂C-III structure has the highest diffusion barrier of 6.09 eV. Our research can provide useful help for studying Cu diffusion barrier materials.

Keywords: diffusion barrier beryllium carbide adsorption energy

Received: 22 October 2019
Revised: 18 November 2019
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PACS:	66.30.Ny	(Chemical interdiffusion; diffusion barriers)
	67.80.dj	(Defects, impurities, and diffusion)
	31.15.eg	(Exchange-correlation functionals (in current density functional theory))

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11974253 and 11774248) and the National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0303600).

Corresponding Authors: Hong Zhang
E-mail: hongzhang@scu.edu.cn

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Hua-Liang Cao(曹华亮), Xin-Lu Cheng(程新路), Hong Zhang(张红) Beryllium carbide as diffusion barrier against Cu: First-principles study 2020 Chin. Phys. B 29 016601

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