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Structural, electronic and vibrational properties of tetragonal zirconia under pressure: a density functional theory study

Victor Milman et al 2009 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21 485404 (12pp)   doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/48/485404  Help

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Victor Milman1, Alexander Perlov1, Keith Refson2, Stewart J Clark3, Jacob Gavartin1 and Bjoern Winkler4
1 Accelrys, 334 Science Park, Cambridge CB4 0WN, UK
2 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK
3 Department of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
4 Institut für Geowissenschaften, Abteilung Kristallographie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Altenhöferallee 1, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
E-mail: vmilman@accelrys.com

Abstract. We present the results of a plane wave based density functional study of the structure and properties of tetragonal zirconia in the range of pressures from 0 to 50 GPa. We predict a transition to a fluorite-type cubic structure at 37 GPa which is likely to be of a soft mode origin and is accompanied by a power law decrease of the frequency of the Raman-active A1g mode. A detailed study of the pressure effect on phonon modes is given, including theoretical Raman spectra and their pressure dependence. Our results provide a consistent picture of the pressure-induced phase transition in tetragonal zirconia.

Print publication: Issue 48 (2 December 2009)
Received 23 September 2009
Published 6 November 2009

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