First-Principles Study of Substitution of Cu and Au for Ni in Ni₃Sn₂

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• 作者：Yali Tian ; Ping Wu ; Zhengxiong Lu
• 关键词：Intermetallic compounds ; ab initio calculations ; mechanical properties ; brittleness and ductility
• 刊名：Journal of Electronic Materials
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：46
• 期：1
• 页码：616-626
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Optical and Electronic Materials; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; Solid State Physics;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1543-186X
• 卷排序：46

文摘

The effects of substitution of Cu and Au for Ni on the mechanical, thermodynamic and electronic properties of two different Ni₃Sn₂ structures are investigated by first-principles calculations. Cu atom at Ni2 site and Au atom at Ni1 site of the η phase lead to the thermodynamic stable structure. For the λ phase, Au atom can only replace the Ni1 site. Substitution causes the decrease of the polycrystalline elastic modulus and the Debye temperature. The degree of anisotropy along Z axis decreases dramatically for η phase, but it increases along Y axis for λ phase after substitution. The Ni₃Sn₂-based intermetallics are all ductile; the η phase is more ductile than the λ phase. The electronic density of states manifest an energy gap appearing in η phase and the effective mass of the η phase is lower than λ phase.