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Interlayer surface relaxations and energies of fcc metal surfaces by a tight-binding method

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Haftel, MI; Bernstein, N; Mehl, MJ; Papaconstantopoulos, DA
Published in: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
January 1, 2004

The authors examine the interlayer surface relaxations and surface energies for the low-index faces of fcc Ni, Pd, Rh, Pt, Au, and Ir using the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) tight-binding (TB) method. We compare the TB calculations, utilizing self-consistent charge transfer, with experimental measurements, density functional theory (DFT) calculations, and semiempirical methods. We find that for these metals the NRL-TB method largely reproduces the trends with respect to the exposed face and periodic table position obtained in DFT calculations and experimental measurements. We find that the inclusion of self-consistency in the TB surface calculations is essential for obtaining this agreement, as the TB calculations without it predict large first interlayer expansions for many of these surfaces. We also examine the energetics and relaxations of the 2 × 1 (011) missing row reconstruction for these metals. The TB method predicts that, in agreement with experiment, Au and Pt undergo this reconstruction, while Ni, Pd, and Rh do not, but predicts the Ir ground state structure to be unreconstructed 1 × 1, opposite to experiment. The interatomic relaxations of the (Oil) missing row structure for Pt, Au, and Ir are in good agreement with DFT calculations and experiment. Finally, we analyze the bonding characteristics of these metals using a decomposition of the TB total energy over neighboring atoms and angular momentum character.

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Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

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0163-1829

Publication Date

January 1, 2004

Volume

70

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12
 

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Haftel, M. I., Bernstein, N., Mehl, M. J., & Papaconstantopoulos, D. A. (2004). Interlayer surface relaxations and energies of fcc metal surfaces by a tight-binding method. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 70(12). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.70.125419
Haftel, M. I., N. Bernstein, M. J. Mehl, and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos. “Interlayer surface relaxations and energies of fcc metal surfaces by a tight-binding method.” Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 70, no. 12 (January 1, 2004). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.70.125419.
Haftel MI, Bernstein N, Mehl MJ, Papaconstantopoulos DA. Interlayer surface relaxations and energies of fcc metal surfaces by a tight-binding method. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2004 Jan 1;70(12).
Haftel, M. I., et al. “Interlayer surface relaxations and energies of fcc metal surfaces by a tight-binding method.” Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, vol. 70, no. 12, Jan. 2004. Scopus, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.70.125419.
Haftel MI, Bernstein N, Mehl MJ, Papaconstantopoulos DA. Interlayer surface relaxations and energies of fcc metal surfaces by a tight-binding method. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2004 Jan 1;70(12).

Published In

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

DOI

ISSN

0163-1829

Publication Date

January 1, 2004

Volume

70

Issue

12