Research Article

Ab Initio Study of Electronic Transport in Cubic-HfO2 Grain Boundaries

Table 1

We report the distances between the atoms as labelled in Figure 2 for Tilt72 and Tilt108 before () and after geometry relaxation (). We also report the percentage of relaxation which is calculated as .

(Å) (Å) (%)

Tilt72
2.2132.070−6.46
2.2132.016−8.90
2.2131.979−10.57
2.2132.87529.9
2.2132.190−1.04
2.2131.971−10.94
2.2132.114−4.47
2.2132.2310.81
3.2322.685−16.9
1.6162.52756.4
4.8484.8480.0
3.2323.89520.5
1.6162.32543.9
4.2374.4535.1
4.2374.037−4.7

Tilt108
2.2132.179−1.5
2.2131.966−1.1
2.2131.930−1.27
2.2133.60262.7
2.2131.880−15.0
2.2133.11440.7
2.2132.104−4.9
2.2132.081−5.9
2.2131.953−11.7
2.2132.116−4.4
2.2132.192−1.0
2.2132.97134.2
3.2322.524−21.9
1.6162.43950.9
4.8485.48913.2
8.0807.921−2.0
6.4647.77120.2
3.2325.06556.7
1.6162.28856.4
4.8483.70923.5
4.2374.188−1.2
4.2374.285−1.1