Research Article

Cohesive Relations for Surface Atoms in the Iron-Technetium Binary System

Table 1

Elastic moduli and lattice constants for hexagonal close-packed technetium and selected moduli for the iron-technetium B2 intermetallic taken from density functional theory and experimental data where available.

TcDFTExperimentTc-Fe (DFT)

B, GPa320306a, 281bB, GPa290
E, GPa380331a, 314ba, Å2.93
, GPa146125a, 123bΔ , eV+ 0.325
V0.300.32a
c11, GPa518433b
c12, GPa243199b
c13, GPa193199b
c33, GPa584470b
c44, GPa138117b
c66, GPa131
a, Å2.722.74b
c/a1.6031.605b

aLove et al. [25]
bGuillermet and Grimvall [26].