First-principles determination of chemical potentials and vacancy formation energies in PbTiO3 and BaTiO3

Zeyad Alahmed and Huaxiang Fu
Phys. Rev. B 76, 224101 – Published 5 December 2007

Abstract

Formation energies of different neutral vacancies (VPb, VTi, VO, and VBa) in tetragonal PbTiO3 and tetragonal BaTiO3 are studied by means of first-principles pseudopotential calculations. Using thermodynamic laws, we also analytically determine the constraints that yield valid chemical potentials for atomic reservoirs in equilibrium with ferroelectric solids, and examine how the energies of vacancy formation may be modified by varying reservoir conditions. We further contrast the defect energetics in BaTiO3 with those in PbTiO3, revealing notable differences. Detailed findings of this study are rather lengthy and are summarized in Sec. IV.

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  • Received 21 June 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.76.224101

©2007 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Zeyad Alahmed1,2 and Huaxiang Fu1

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Vol. 76, Iss. 22 — 1 December 2007

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