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We have investigated various physical properties including phonon dispersion, thermodynamic parameters, optical constants, Fermi surface, Mulliken bond population, theoretical Vickers hardness and damage tolerance of anti-perovskite A3BX…
A theoretical study of the newly identified Ti5Al2C3 belonging to the MAX phases has been performed by using the first-principles pseudopotential plane-wave method within the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). The energy band…
We have investigated the phonon, elastic and thermodynamic properties of L1$_{2}$ phase Al$_{3}$Ta by density functional theory approach combining with quasi-harmonic approximation model. The results of phonon band structure shows that…
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In this work, the elastic and thermodynamic properties of Pt$_{3}$Al under high pressure are investigated using density functional theory within the generalized gradient approximation. The results of bulk modulus and elastic constants at…
We have investigated Vickers hardness and the thermodynamic properties of the recently discovered nanolaminate carbide Ti3SnC2 polymorphs using the first-principles calculations. The chemical bonding shows a combination of covalent, ionic…
The structural, elastic, electronic, thermal and optical properties of superconducting MAX phases Ti2InX (X = C, N) are investigated by density functional theory (DFT). The results obtained from the least studied nitride phase are discussed…
We study the phase stability, mechanical, electronic, optical properties and Vicker's hardness of the newly predicted layered compound V4SiC3 using the first-principles method. This hypothetical compound is found to possess higher bulk…
Taking into considerations the wide compositional stretch of Heusler alloys, the first principles density functional theory based calculations are excellently suitable for estimating the multifaceted properties of alkali metal based LiVSb…
This study explores the structural stability, elastic, mechanical, electronic, thermophysical, magnetic, optical and lattice dynamic properties of VPdZ (Z= Ge, Sn) half Heusler alloys using density functional theory. The alloys show…
A theoretical study of Mo2TiAlC2 compound belonging to the MAX phases has been performed by using the firstprinciples pseudopotential plane-wave method within the generalized gradient approximation. We have calculated the structural,…
tructural transformation, pressure dependent elasticity behaviors, phonon, and thermodynamic properties of the equiatomic TiZr alloy are investigated by using first-principles density-functional theory. Our calculated lattice parameters and…
The structural, electronic, mechanical and thermodynamic properties of (Ti1-xMox)2AlC (0 < x < 0.20) were explored via density functional theory. The obtained lattice constants agree well with the experimental values. The electronic band…
We present first-principles density functional theory (DFT) investigations of mechanical, thermodynamic and optical properties of synthesized inverse-perovskites Sc3InX (X = B, C, N). The elastic constants at zero pressure and temperature…
We report here ab initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations of structural, elastic, Peierls stress, thermodynamic and optical properties of RRh3B (R = Y, Zr and Nb) using the plane wave psedudopotential method. The materials…
The elastic, thermodynamic, and optical properties of Mo_{2}TiAlC_{2} are investigated by first-principles calculations. Our results indicate that the a axis is stiffer than c axis within 0~100 GPa. Elastic constants calculations predict…
First principles pseudopotential calculations have been performed for the first time to investigate the phonon dispersion, thermodynamic and optical properties including charge density, Fermi surface, Mulliken population analysis,…
The topological Weyl semimetal CaSn3, belonging to the AuCu3 type cubic structure, is an important electronic system to investigate both from the point of view of fundamental physics and prospective applications. In this work, we have…
Using ab initio method we have studied the structural, elastic, electronic, optical and thermodynamic properties of AlB2 and TaB2. We have used plane wave pseudopotential with generalised gradient approximation as implemented in CASTEP…
High quality vanadium sesquioxide V2O3 films (170-1100 {\AA}) were grown using the pulsed laser deposition technique on (0001)-oriented sapphire substrates, and the effects of film thickness on the lattice strain and electronic properties…