Linearized augmented plane wave total energy calculations for ferroelectric BaTiO3
- 1 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ferroelectrics
- Vol. 111 (1) , 57-61
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00150199008217601
Abstract
The ferroelectric instability in BaTiO3 has been studied using the full potential Linearized Augmented Plane Wave (LAPW) method. The energy wells for the soft mode distortion are deeper for rhombohedral [111] displacements relative to tetragonal [001] displacements, but both are relatively shallow and comparable to the transition temperature. The tetragonal lattice strain greatly reduces the total energy for tetragonal BaTiO3, but the rhombohedral strain has little effect. These calculations show that the ferroelectric instability in BaTiO3, can be understood in terms of a perfect, infinite crystal with periodic boundary conditions.Keywords
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