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MM: Fachverband Metall- und Materialphysik

MM 4: Methods in Computational Materials Modelling (methodological aspects, numerics)

MM 4.1: Talk

Monday, April 1, 2019, 10:15–10:30, H45

Formation enthalpies for automated computational materials design — •Rico Friedrich1, Demet Usanmaz1, Corey Oses1, Andrew Supka2, Marco Fornari2, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli3, Cormac Toher1, and Stefano Curtarolo41Dept. of Mech. Eng. and Mat. Sci., Duke Univ. — 2Dept. of Phys. and Science of Advanced Materials Program, Central Michigan Univ. — 3Dept. of Phys. and Dept. of Chem., Univ. of North Texas — 4Mat. Sci., Elec. Eng., Phys. and Chem., Duke Univ.

The accurate calculation of formation enthalpies is crucial for computational materials design. For compounds chemically similar to their reference phases such as metal alloys, standard semi-local approximations to density functional theory (DFT) lead to accurate results [1]. When the phases are chemically dissimilar as in the case of oxides, DFT suffers from a lack of error cancellation leading to deviations of several hundred meV/atom compared to experimental values [2]. We use the automated computational materials design framework AFLOW [3] to validate correction schemes for ab-initio formation enthalpies [2, 4]. These empirical methods can improve DFT predictions by a factor of 4 to 7. Zero-point vibrational and thermal contributions to the formation enthalpy are found to largely cancel each other.
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