中国物理B ›› 2010, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (4): 43103-043103.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/19/4/043103

• ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS • 上一篇    下一篇

Density-functional investigation of 3d,4d,5d impurity doped Au6 clusters

张孟, 冯晓娟, 赵丽霞, 贺黎明, 罗有华   

  1. Department of Physics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
  • 收稿日期:2009-08-18 修回日期:2009-10-16 出版日期:2010-04-15 发布日期:2010-04-15

Density-functional investigation of 3d,4d,5d impurity doped Au6 clusters

Zhang Meng(张孟), Feng Xiao-Juan(冯晓娟), Zhao Li-Xia(赵丽霞), He Li-Ming(贺黎明), and Luo You-Hua(罗有华)   

  1. Department of Physics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
  • Received:2009-08-18 Revised:2009-10-16 Online:2010-04-15 Published:2010-04-15

摘要: The general features of the geometries and electronic properties for 3d, 4d, and 5d transition-metal atom doped Au$_{6}$ clusters are systematically investigated by using relativistic all-electron density functional theory in the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). A number of structural isomers are considered to search the lowest-energy structures of $M$@Au$_{6}$ clusters ($M$=3d, 4d and 5d transition-metal atoms), and the transition metal atom locating in the centre of an Au$_{6}$ ring is found to be in the ground state for all the $M$@Au$_{6 }$ clusters. All doped clusters, expect for Pd@Au$_{6}$, show large relative binding energies compared with a pure Au$_{7 }$ cluster, indicating that doping by 3d, 4d, 5d transition-metal atoms could stabilize the Au$_{6}$ ring and promote the formation of a new binary alloy cluster.

Abstract: The general features of the geometries and electronic properties for 3d, 4d, and 5d transition-metal atom doped Au$_{6}$ clusters are systematically investigated by using relativistic all-electron density functional theory in the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). A number of structural isomers are considered to search the lowest-energy structures of $M$@Au$_{6}$ clusters ($M$=3d, 4d and 5d transition-metal atoms), and the transition metal atom locating in the centre of an Au$_{6}$ ring is found to be in the ground state for all the $M$@Au$_{6 }$ clusters. All doped clusters, expect for Pd@Au$_{6}$, show large relative binding energies compared with a pure Au$_{7 }$ cluster, indicating that doping by 3d, 4d, 5d transition-metal atoms could stabilize the Au$_{6}$ ring and promote the formation of a new binary alloy cluster.

Key words: density functional theory, structural properties, gold clusters

中图分类号:  (Structure of clusters (e.g., metcars; not fragments of crystals; free or loosely aggregated or loosely attached to a substrate))

  • 61.46.Bc
73.22.-f (Electronic structure of nanoscale materials and related systems) 71.15.Mb (Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections) 71.15.Nc (Total energy and cohesive energy calculations)