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Ab-Initio And Empirical Simulations Of Aluminum And Copper Metal, William Wolfs
Ab-Initio And Empirical Simulations Of Aluminum And Copper Metal, William Wolfs
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In this work, I perform detailed calculations on the bulk and electronic properties of aluminum and copper metal. Originally, I was motivated by experimental work on the solidsolid phase changes in pure aluminum. These phase changes were well predicted by density functional theory(DFT) but difficult or impossible to predict using embedded atom method potentials(EAM). EAM potentials are in wide use to describe many properties of bulk materials, and it seemed worrying that something so basic as a phase change could not be predicted. I began running high precision calculations with DFT and compared the results to EAM potentials which had …
Synthesis And High-Pressure Structural Studies Of Aux2 (X= Al, Ga, In) Compounds, Jason Lee Baker
Synthesis And High-Pressure Structural Studies Of Aux2 (X= Al, Ga, In) Compounds, Jason Lee Baker
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Three intermetallic compounds, AuX2 (X = Al, Ga, In), were synthesized by arc-melting proper stoichiometric ratios of high purity Au, Al, Ga, and In. They were found to be single-phase in the CaF2 type Fm3m crystalline structure. Interest in these particular intermetallic materials is due to intriguing pressure-induced behavior such as electronic topological transitions (ETTs), and structural phase transitions as well as their use in a variety of practical applications such as a solar spectral absorber and in electronic circuitry. In this study, the high-pressure structure of these materials was studied using high resolution synchrotron x-ray diffraction (XRD) …