ZrSiO4 and HfSiO4 are of considerable interest because of their low thermal expansions, thermal conductivities, and the optical properties of HfSiO4. In addition, silicate phases of both are studied as model radioactive ...

We calculate first-principles interaction energies between substitutional solutes and oxygen interstitials in α-titanium and predict the effect of solutes on oxygen diffusion from those interactions. Interaction between ...

To see if ferromagnetism can occur in C-doped anatase TiO2, we performed first-principles calculations for a number of C-doped structures in which C atoms substitute O atoms. Our study shows that each C has spin-polarized ...

Migration energy for HCP gold, self-diffusion.

The cluster-expansion method was used to perform first principles phase diagram calculations for the wurtzite-structure quasibinary systems (SiC)1-X(AlN)X, (SiC)1-X (GaN)X and (SiC)1-X(InN)X; and to model variations of ...

The polarization of a nearest-neighbor (nn) Pb-O vacancy pair [(VPb-VO)nn] in PbTiO3 is calculated, using the modern theory of polarization, implemented in the density-functional-theory ultrasoft pseudopotential formalism. ...

First principles phase diagram calculations were performed for the system NaCl–KCl. Plane-wave pseudopotential calculations of formation energies were used as a basis for fitting cluster expansion Hamiltonians, both with ...

First principles based phase diagram calculations were performed for the system (1−X) NaNbO3–(X) KNbO3. Plane wave pseudopotential calculations of formation energies were used as a basis for fitting a cluster expansion ...

The group IV hexagonal closest packed (hcp) suboxides MOX (M = Ti, Zr or Hf) all exhibit octahedral interstitial ordering of oxygen, O, and vacancies, in solid solutions of the form View the MathML source, 0≤X≤1/2. By far, ...