Pressure on the Structure and Thermal Properties of PbTiO3: First-principle Study

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PbTiO₃ (PTO) is an important ferroelectric functional material, but its structure, stability, mechanical property, and thermodynamic property under pressure is still unknown, leading to restriction in applying in the field of electronic communication. Here, first-principles calculations based on density functional theory was performed to study the structure and thermal properties of pre-perovskite phase PbTiO₃ (PP-PTO), ferroelectric tetragonal phase PbTiO₃ (TP-PTO), and paraelectric cubic phase PbTiO₃ (CP-PTO) under pressure. It is found that their compressibility in descending order is PP-PTO>TP-PTO>CP-PTO. Under considered pressure, three PTO phases have not undergone a phase transition analyzed by band structure and density of states, and their band gap gradually decreases with increasing pressure. Among them, the TP-PTO changes from an indirect to a direct band gap semiconductor at 20 GPa, while the others remain a direct band gap semiconductor. Those PTO phases are mechanically stable and anisotropy from 0 to 30 GPa. Furthermore, their comprehensive mechanical properties increase and anisotropy firstly decreases and then increases with increasing pressure. Analysis based on quasi- harmonic Debye approximation theory was performed to study the influence of temperature and pressure on Debye temperature, entropy and heat capacity. The results illuminate that Debye temperature decreases with temperature increase, nevertheless, pressure has the opposite effect, which elucidates that the order of covalent bond from strong to weak is CP-PTO>TP-PTO>PP-PTO. Entropy and heat capacity of PTO increase with rising temperature, but decrease with the increase of pressure.

Key words: PbTiO₃, electronic structure, elastic mechanics, first-principles

CLC Number:

TQ174

WEN Zhiqin, HUANG Binrong, LU Taoyi, ZOU Zhengguang. Pressure on the Structure and Thermal Properties of PbTiO₃: First-principle Study[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2022, 37(7): 787-794.

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Phase	Species	Present	Cal.	Exp.
TP-PTO	a=b/nm	0.389	0.389^[18]	0.39^[20]
	c/nm	0.417	0.416^[18]	0.416^[20]
	∆H_f /eV	-13.45	-13.34^[21]
CP-PTO	a=b=c/nm	0.397	0.397^[19]	0.395^[20]
	∆H_f /eV	-13.38	-13.25^[22]
PP-PTO	a=b/nm	1.244	1.216^[10]	1.237^[8]
	c/nm	0.377	0.376^[10]	0.381^[8]
	∆H_f /eV	-5.85

Phase	Species	Present	Cal.	Exp.
TP-PTO	a=b/nm	0.389	0.389^[18]	0.39^[20]
	c/nm	0.417	0.416^[18]	0.416^[20]
	∆H_f /eV	-13.45	-13.34^[21]
CP-PTO	a=b=c/nm	0.397	0.397^[19]	0.395^[20]
	∆H_f /eV	-13.38	-13.25^[22]
PP-PTO	a=b/nm	1.244	1.216^[10]	1.237^[8]
	c/nm	0.377	0.376^[10]	0.381^[8]
	∆H_f /eV	-5.85

	TP-PTO				CP-PTO					PP-PTO
	0 GPa	10 GPa	20 GPa	30 GPa	0 GPa	10 GPa	20 GPa	30 GPa	0 GPa	10 GPa	20 GPa	30 GPa
Present /eV	1.76 ^a	1.587	1.483	1.40	1.675 ^b	1.611	1.538	1.459	2.346 ^c	2.002	1.549	1.142

	TP-PTO				CP-PTO					PP-PTO
	0 GPa	10 GPa	20 GPa	30 GPa	0 GPa	10 GPa	20 GPa	30 GPa	0 GPa	10 GPa	20 GPa	30 GPa
Present /eV	1.76 ^a	1.587	1.483	1.40	1.675 ^b	1.611	1.538	1.459	2.346 ^c	2.002	1.549	1.142

		C₁₁	C₃₃	C₄₄	C₆₆	C₁₂	C₁₃	C₁₆
TP-PTO	Present	252.9	59.1	72.6	100.7	106.1	71.1	-
	Exp.^[34]	237	60	69	144	90	70	-
	Cal.^[18]	253.9	79.8	73.3	100.9	103.8	79	-
CP-PTO	Present	279.2	-	98.2	-	118.5	-	-
	Exp.^[35]	229	-	100	-	101	-	-
	Cal.^[18]	279.9	-	98.6	-	117.9	-	-
PP-PTO	Present	86.95	209.5	50.82	42.28	25.51	49.79	2.55
	Cal.^[9]	98.8	287.8	61.4	56.8	43.2	79.8	4.9

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	p/GPa	B/GPa	G/GPa	E/GPa	ν	A^u
TP-PTO	0	87.76	56.91	140.38	0.23	4.1150
	10	211.16	101.92	263.39	0.29	0.1345
	20	274.35	125.99	327.81	0.30	0.0413
	30	315.08	139.28	364.19	0.31	0.1059
CP-PTO	0	172.02	90.86	231.76	0.28	0.0505
	10	217.28	106.87	275.45	0.29	0.0003
	20	257.15	120.49	312.65	0.30	0.0161
	30	299.13	133.24	348.06	0.31	0.0604
PP-PTO	0	63.19	44.09	107.32	0.22	0.7114
	10	121.88	60.96	156.75	0.29	0.5906
	20	173.96	70.31	185.89	0.32	0.4811
	30	219.12	77.26	207.40	0.34	0.5568

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