First-principles study on the formation energies of Ga1_xCrxAs

[摘要] The electronic structure and formation energy of the Ga1-xCrxAs compound has been studied by principles of methods based on the Density Functional Theory. The formation energy of the compound is calculated, as well as the vacancies and substitutions. The equations of Kohn-Sham are solved employing the plane wave method and the ultra-soft atomic pseudopotentials approximation. The generalized gradient approximation was employed for the exchange and correlation energy in the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) parametrization as it is implemented in the computational code Quantum Espresso. It was found that the most favourable configuration is the GaAs lattice by doing the substitution of one Ga atom by one Cr in the analyzed lattices.

[发布机构] Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia^1;Universidad de Los Llanos, Villavicencio, Colombia^2

[效力级别] 化学

[关键词] Computational codes;Exchange and correlation;First-principles study;Formation energies;Generalized gradient approximations;Parametrizations;Perdew-burke-ernzerhof;Plane wave methods