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Chin. Phys. B, 2009, Vol. 18(1): 269-274    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/18/1/043
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Phase transition and thermodynamic properties of TiO2 from first-principles calculations

Yu Jing-Xin(于景新)a), Fu Min(傅敏)a), Ji Guang-Fu (姬广富)a)b), and Chen Xiang-Rong(陈向荣)a)c)†
a School of Physical Science and Technology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China; b Laboratory for Shock Wave and Detonation Physics Research, Institute of Fluid Physics, Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, Chinac International Centre for Materials Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
Abstract  The pressure induced phase transitions of TiO2 from anatase to columbite structure and from rutile to columbite structure and the temperature induced phase transition from anatase to rutile structure and from columbite to rutile structure are investigated by ab initio plane-wave pseudopotential density functional theory method (DFT), together with quasi-harmonic Debye model. It is found that the zero-temperature transition pressures from anatase to columbite and from rutile to columbite are 4.55 GPa and 19.92GPa, respectively. The zero-pressure transition temperatures from anatase to rutile and from columbite to rutile are 950 K and 1500 K, respectively. Our results are consistent with the available experimental data and other theoretical results. Moreover, the dependence of the normalized primitive cell volume V/V0 on pressure and the dependences of thermal expansion coefficient $\alpha$ on temperature and pressure are also obtained successfully.
Keywords:  local density approximation      transition phase      thermodynamic property      TiO2  
Received:  30 June 2008      Revised:  20 August 2008      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  64.70.K-  
  65.40.De (Thermal expansion; thermomechanical effects)  
  71.15.Dx (Computational methodology (Brillouin zone sampling, iterative diagonalization, pseudopotential construction))  
  71.15.Mb (Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections)  
  81.30.Hd (Constant-composition solid-solid phase transformations: polymorphic, massive, and order-disorder)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10776022).

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Yu Jing-Xin(于景新), Fu Min(傅敏), Ji Guang-Fu (姬广富), and Chen Xiang-Rong(陈向荣) Phase transition and thermodynamic properties of TiO2 from first-principles calculations 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 269

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