First Principles Investigation of Electronic Structure, Chemical Bonding, Elastic and Optical Properties of Novel Rhenium Nitrides

Abstract:

we investigate the electronic structure, chemical bonding, optical and elastic properties of the novel rhenium nitrides, hexagonal phase re3n and re2n by using density-functional theory (dft) within generalized gradient approximation (gga). the calculated equilibrium lattice constants of both re3n and re2n are in reasonable agreement with the experimental results. the band structure along the higher symmetry axes in the Brillouin zone, the density of states (dos) and the partial density of states (pdos) are presented. the calculated energy band structures and dos show that re3n and re2n are metal compounds. The dos and pdos show that the dos at the fermi level (e_f) is located at the bottom of a valley and originate mainly from the 5d electrons of re. population analyses suggest that the chemical bonding in re3n and re2n has predominantly covalent character with mixed covalent and ionic characteristics. the dielectric function, reflectivity, absorption coefficient, refractive index, electron energy-loss function and optical conductivity are presented in an energy range for discussing the optical properties of re3n and re2n. basic mechanical properties, such as elastic constants cij, bulk modulus b and shear modulus g are calculated. The young’s modulus e, poisson's ratio ν and b_h/g_h are also predicted. results conclude that the hexagonal phase re3n and re2n are mechanical stable and behaves in a ductile manner. polycrystalline elastic anisotropy is also derived from polycrystalline bulk modulus b and shear modulus g.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 512-515)
• Pages: 883-889
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.512-515.883
• Online since: June 2012
• Authors: Qing Lin Xia, Liu Xian Pan, Yuan Dong Peng, Li Ya Li, Hong Zhong Wang, Rui Bao, Jian Hong Yi
• Keywords: Elastic Property, Electronic Structure, First-Principle, Optical Property, Re₂N, Re₃N

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