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Study of inter-atomic interactions in advanced materials with help of ab initio calculations
Janovec, Jozef ; Šob, Mojmír (oponent) ; Zelený, Martin (vedoucí práce)
Chemical bonding in transition metal diborides and Ni2MnGa alloy was studied in terms of energy resolved COHP visualization tool. The electronic structure of studied systems was calculated using the first principles calculations with the help of projector augmented-wave method. Concerning transition metal diborides, we found dependence of the strongest boron-boron bond on the charge transfer from metal to boron atoms. The stability of diborides with the alpha structure decreases with higher number of metal valence electrons due to on-site contribution to the band energy near the Fermi level. Ni2MnGa shape memory alloy was treated by DFT+ U corrective method in order to describe localized electrons more accurately. The effect of U on Ni resides in destabilization of the cubic austenite and stabilization of the tetragonal NM martensite. On the contrary, U on Mn destabilizes martensite. The bond analysis shows that the strongest bond in the alloy is Ni-Ga with covalnet character. Increased localization of Mn valence electrons makes Mn-Ni bond more covalent and Ni-Ni bond more metallic. The localization of Ni electrons results in more metallic Mn-Ni bond.
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Ab initio calculation of doping in Ni2MnGa alloy
Janovec, Jozef ; Černý, Miroslav (oponent) ; Zelený, Martin (vedoucí práce)
The subject of this work is theoretical study of Ni-Mn-Ga system, known due to the magnetic shape memory effect. Calculations were performed using the Exact Muffin-Tin Orbitals method in combination with the Coherent Potential Approximation within the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker formalism. The total energy was calculated by Full Charge Density method. Effects of Zn or Cd dopings on total energies along the tetragonal deformation path and consequently on martensite transformation temperature TM and Curie temperature TC were examined. Off-stoichiometric alloys with excess of Mn at the expose of Ga were studied as well. The increase in TM for all cases of doping in Ga sublattice and the decrease in TM for both cases of doping in Mn sublattice were predicted. Regarding TC, all types of doping should decrease Curie temperature with an exception of magnetic transition in the off-stoichiometric martensite.
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Study of inter-atomic interactions in advanced materials with help of ab initio calculations
Janovec, Jozef ; Šob, Mojmír (oponent) ; Zelený, Martin (vedoucí práce)
Chemical bonding in transition metal diborides and Ni2MnGa alloy was studied in terms of energy resolved COHP visualization tool. The electronic structure of studied systems was calculated using the first principles calculations with the help of projector augmented-wave method. Concerning transition metal diborides, we found dependence of the strongest boron-boron bond on the charge transfer from metal to boron atoms. The stability of diborides with the alpha structure decreases with higher number of metal valence electrons due to on-site contribution to the band energy near the Fermi level. Ni2MnGa shape memory alloy was treated by DFT+ U corrective method in order to describe localized electrons more accurately. The effect of U on Ni resides in destabilization of the cubic austenite and stabilization of the tetragonal NM martensite. On the contrary, U on Mn destabilizes martensite. The bond analysis shows that the strongest bond in the alloy is Ni-Ga with covalnet character. Increased localization of Mn valence electrons makes Mn-Ni bond more covalent and Ni-Ni bond more metallic. The localization of Ni electrons results in more metallic Mn-Ni bond.
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Ab initio calculation of doping in Ni2MnGa alloy
Janovec, Jozef ; Černý, Miroslav (oponent) ; Zelený, Martin (vedoucí práce)
The subject of this work is theoretical study of Ni-Mn-Ga system, known due to the magnetic shape memory effect. Calculations were performed using the Exact Muffin-Tin Orbitals method in combination with the Coherent Potential Approximation within the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker formalism. The total energy was calculated by Full Charge Density method. Effects of Zn or Cd dopings on total energies along the tetragonal deformation path and consequently on martensite transformation temperature TM and Curie temperature TC were examined. Off-stoichiometric alloys with excess of Mn at the expose of Ga were studied as well. The increase in TM for all cases of doping in Ga sublattice and the decrease in TM for both cases of doping in Mn sublattice were predicted. Regarding TC, all types of doping should decrease Curie temperature with an exception of magnetic transition in the off-stoichiometric martensite.
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