Material:

FeSi

ID:

MMD-739

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Compounds with the same formula: FeSi (4 entries found)
Compounds with the same elements: Fe-Si (47 entries found)
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Space group:

Crystal system

hexagonal

Space group number

187

Hermann-Mauguin

P-6m2

Hall

P -6 2

Point group

-6m2

Structure data:

Normalized formula

FeSi

The number of formula units per unit cell

1

The total number of atoms per unit cell

2

The number of inequivalent sites per unit cell

2

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Lattice parameters:

a (Å)

2.7384

b (Å)

2.7384

c (Å)

3.5030

α (deg.)

90.000

β (deg.)

90.000

γ (deg.)

120.000

Volume (Å3)

22.749

Density (g/cm3)

6.126

Crystal structure visualization:

Thermodynamic properties:

DFT calculations (details)

Formation energy (vs. elemental phases)

-334.0 meV/atom

Formation energy above hull

177.2 meV/atom

Phase diagram:

Phase diagram

Related structures:

Compounds with the same formula: FeSi

4 entries found

Compounds with the same elements: Fe-Si

47 entries found

Magnetic properties:

DFT calculations (details)

Magnetic ordering

Ferromagnetic

Total magnetic moment

0.70 μB/cell

Averaged magnetic moment

0.35 μB/atom

Magnetic polarization, Js = μ0Ms

0.36 T (= 286.5 emu/cm3)
LMTO-GF calculations (details)

Curie temperature, TC

DFT calculations (details)

Magnetic anisotropy constant, Ka-c

0.74 MJ/m3 (= 0.10 meV/cell)

Magnetic easy axis

c

Magnetic hardness parameter, κ

2.69

Atomic positions (fractional coordinates) and site-specific magnetic data:

index species w x y z m (μB) Esoc100 (meV) Esoc001 (meV)
1 Fe 1a 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.74 . .
2 Si 1f 0.666667 0.333333 0.500000 -0.03 . .
w: site multiplicity (the number of equivalent positions) and Wyckoff letter (a label for site symmetry)
m: local magnetic moment
Esoc100 (001): Spin-orbit coupling energy for the magnetization oriented along the crystallographic a (c) axis
(Individual Esoc values are temporarily not available while we perform maintenance.)
Terms and conditions

Site-resolved magnetic moments:

Local magnetic moments

Pair-wise magnetic data:

site i site j distance (Å) Jij (meV)
1 Fe 1a 2 Si 1f 2.36 .
Jij: magnetic exchange parameter between site i and j (Individual Jij values are temporarily not available while we perform maintenance.)
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Terms and conditions

Pair-resolved magnetic exchange parameters:


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Methods:

DFT calculations

  • exchange-correlation energy functional: GGA-PBE
  • pseudopotential type: PAW
  • cutoff energy: 65.0 Ry
  • k-point grid: (kx, ky, kz) = (26, 26, 18) for magnetic anisotropy calculations
  • package: QE (v6.3)

LMTO-GF calculations

  • k-point grid: (kx, ky, kz) =
  • energy mesh: 41 points on an elliptical contour
  • package: Questaal (v7)

References:

References

J. App. Phys. 124, 073901 (2018). DOI: 10.1063/1.5036992
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