Cluster, surface and bulk properties of ZnCd binary alloys: Molecular-dynamics simulations

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2005-01-01

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Erkoç, Şakir

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The structural and electronic properties of isolated neutral Zn Cd-n clusters for m+n <= 3 have been investigated by performing density functional theory calculations at B3LYP level. The optimum geometries, vibrational frequencies, electronic structures, and the possible dissosiation channels of the clusters considered have been obtained. An empirical many-body potential energy function (PEF), which comprices two- and three-body atomic interactions, has been developed to investigate the structural features and energetics of ZnmCdn (m+n=3,4) microclusters. The most stable structures were found to be triangular for the three-atom clusters and tetrahedral for the four-atom clusters. On the other hand, the structural features and energetics of Znn-mCdm (n=7,8) microclusters, and Zn-50, Cd-50, Zn25Cd25, Zn12Cd38, and Zn38Cd12 nanoparticles have been investigated by performing molecular-dynamics computer simulations using the developed PEF. The most stable structures were found to be compact and three-dimensional for all elemental and mixed clusters. An interesting structural feature of the mixed clusters is that Zn and Cd atoms do not mix in mixed clusters, they come together almost without mixing. Surface and bulk properties of Zn, Cd, and ZnCd systems have been investigated too by performing molecular-dynamics simulations using the developed PEF. Surface reconstruction and multilayer relaxation on clean surfaces, adatom on surface, substitutional atom on surface and bulk materials, and vacancy on surface and bulk materials have been studied extensively.

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ZnCd clusters , Density functional theory, Empirical potentials, Molecular-dynamics

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51608

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NEW FRONTIERS OF PROCESSING AND ENGINEERING IN ADVANCED MATERIALS

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.502.51

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Department of Physics, Article

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Ş. Erkoç, “Cluster, surface and bulk properties of ZnCd binary alloys: Molecular-dynamics simulations,” NEW FRONTIERS OF PROCESSING AND ENGINEERING IN ADVANCED MATERIALS, pp. 51–56, 2005, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51608.