Negative thermal expansion of diamond and zinc-blende semiconductors
- 17 July 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 63 (3) , 290-293
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.63.290
Abstract
Experimentally it is well known that diamond and zinc-blende semiconductors show an ‘‘unusual’’ (i.e., negative) thermal expansion at about 100 K. We performed density-functional-theory calculations of thermodynamic potentials (i.e., total energies and entropies) for perfect crystals, to study the temperature dependence of the lattice parameter. The origin of the negative expansion effect is traced back to the entropy contribution of the Gibbs free energy.Keywords
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