INTERPLANAR BINDING AND LATTICE-RELAXATION IN A GRAPHITE DILAYER

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作者
TRICKEY, SB
MULLERPLATHE, F
DIERCKSEN, GHF
BOETTGER, JC
机构
[1] UNIV FLORIDA,DEPT PHYS,QUANTUM THEORY PROJECT,GAINESVILLE,FL 32611
[2] UNIV FLORIDA,DEPT CHEM,GAINESVILLE,FL 32611
[3] SWISS FED INST TECHNOL,PHYS CHEM LAB,CH-8092 ZURICH,SWITZERLAND
[4] LOS ALAMOS NATL LAB,DIV THEORET,LOS ALAMOS,NM 87545
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1992年 / 45卷 / 08期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.45.4460
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T [工业技术];
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摘要
High-precision, large-basis-set calculations, in the local-density approximation (LDA) (using the all-electron, full-potential, linear combination of Gaussian orbitals, fitting-function technique), of the cohesive properties and electronic states (bare Kohn-Sham energies) of the isolated AB dilayer of graphite are reported. They show that the dilayer interplanar spacing (c axis) differs little from the value for AB AB AB ... crystalline graphite (0.7% expansion relative to one calculation, 2.5% contraction relative to another, 2% expansion relative to experiment). This result, which differs significantly from a preliminary report of strong c-axis contraction, is related to the weak interplanar binding. The intraplanar lattice spacing (a axis) is virtually identical with the crystalline value for both the graphite dilayer and monolayer. The interplanar binding energy (obtained directly via optimization of the monolayer ground state with the same techniques) is in excellent (perhaps fortuitous) agreement with the experimental value for the crystal, in contrast with crystalline calculations, which are too large (in magnitude) by 40-100% or more. The dilayer cohesive energy agrees well with the crystalline value from an all-electron calculation. Both exceed the experimental value in magnitude by over 1 eV/atom, a problem already known to arise from inadequacies in the LDA treatment of the multiplet structure of the isolated C atom. The dilayer uniaxial compressibility is much larger than calculated for the crystal, apparently another manifestation of weak interplanar binding. Dilayer Kohn-Sham eigenvalues are largely consistent with those calculated self-consistently for the crystal using the same LDA model. Both differ substantially from the non-self-consistent band structure commonly used to parametrize graphite optical properties of interest in astrophysics. Calculated values of the dilayer work function are larger by about 0.6-0.7 eV than the crystalline experimental results. The dilayer density of states at the Fermi level is predicted to be much smaller than for the crystal, while the occupied bandwidth is in reasonable agreement with crystalline experimental results.
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