Anisotropic elastic properties and ideal uniaxial compressive strength of TiB<sub>2</sub> from first principles calculations

Anisotropic elastic properties and ideal uniaxial compressive strength of TiB₂ from first principles calculations

Sun Min¹, Wang Chong-Yu^{2, ‡}, Liu Ji-Ping^{1, †}

The total and site projected densities of states (TDOS and PDOS) of TiB₂ at strains (a) 0.00, (b) 0.14, (c) −0.24 along the direction 〈101¯0〉 , (d) 0.22, (e) −0.16 along the direction 〈1¯21¯0〉 , and (f) 0.28, (g) −0.32 along the direction ⟨0001⟩. The vertical line indicates the Fermi level E_F.