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Prediction of entropy stabilized incommensurate phases in the system MoS2 -MoTe2.


ABSTRACT: A first principles phase diagram calculation, that included van der Waals interactions, was performed for the 3D bulk system (1 - X) · MoS2 - (X) · MoTe2. Surprisingly, the predicted phase diagram has at least two ordered phases, at X ? 0:46, even though all calculated formation energies are positive; in a ground-state analysis that examined all configurations with 16 or fewer anion sites. The lower-temperature I-phase is predicted to transform to a higher-temperature I'-phase at T ? 500 K, and I' disorders at T ? 730 K. Both these transitions are predicted to be first-order, and there are broad two-phase fields on both sides of the ordered regions. Both the I- and I'-phases are predicted to be incommensurate, i.e., aperiodic: I-phase in three dimensions; and I'-phase in two dimensions.

SUBMITTER: Burton BP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5531295 | biostudies-other | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Prediction of entropy stabilized incommensurate phases in the system <i>MoS<sub>2</sub></i> -<i>MoTe<sub>2</sub></i>.

Burton B P BP   Singh A K AK  

Journal of applied physics 20161018 15


A first principles phase diagram calculation, that included van der Waals interactions, was performed for the 3D bulk system (1 - <i>X</i>) · <i>MoS</i><sub>2</sub> - (<i>X</i>) · <i>MoTe</i><sub>2</sub>. Surprisingly, the predicted phase diagram has at least two ordered phases, at <i>X</i> ≈ 0:46, even though all calculated formation energies are positive; in a ground-state analysis that examined all configurations with 16 or fewer anion sites. The lower-temperature <i>I</i>-phase is predicted  ...[more]

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