应变对钴铁氧体电子结构和磁性能影响的第一性原理研究

尖晶石型钴铁氧体(CoFe₂O₄)因具有良好的电磁性质, 广泛应用于计算机技术、航空航天及医学生物等领域. 特别是钴铁氧体薄膜在磁电复合材料中具有良好的应用前景. 本文基于密度泛函理论的第一性原理平面波赝势法, 结合广义梯度近似, 通过采用更接近于实验上外延生长的二维应变模型, 研究了钴铁氧体薄膜的结构稳定性、电子结构和磁性能. 结果表明: 在二维应变作用下, 反尖晶石结构的钴铁氧体比正尖晶石结构的稳定, 但是与平衡基态相比, 两者能量差减小, 这表明在应变作用下, 八面体晶格中的Co²⁺离子与四面体晶格中的Fe³⁺离子更容易进行位置交换, 形成混合型结构的钴铁氧体; 同时随着应变的增大, 钴铁氧体的能带带隙减小, 晶格中的原子磁矩发生变化, 但总磁矩变化不明显.关键词：尖晶石型钴铁氧体第一性原理电子结构磁性能

Influences of strain on electronic structure and magnetic properties of CoFe2O4 from first-principles study*

Spinel ferrites, such as CoFe₂O₄, can be used in various fields such as computer technology, aerospace, and medical biotechnology due to their good electromagnetic properties. Although, CoFe₂O₄ thin films have good application prospects in the magnetoelectric composites, the effects of strain on the electronic structure and magnetic properties of cobalt ferrite film have not been reported. Through the use of two-dimensional strain model closer to the epitaxial growth experiments, the films of Cobalt ferrite are simulated on various substrates with a realistic biaxial strain model by first-principles plane-wave pseudopotential method based on density functional theory, and combined with the generalized gradient approximation in the paper. And the structural stabilities, electronic structures and magnetic properties of CoFe₂O₄ films are studied. The results show that the inverse spinel is still energetically favored under strain, but the energy difference decreases, thus Fe³⁺ions in the tetrahedral sites and Co²⁺ ions in the octahedral sites are easier to exchange their positions. As the strain increases, the band gap of cobalt ferrite becomes narrower, and the magnetic moment of atom in the lattice changes, while the net magnetic moment changes little.
Keywords：spinel cobalt ferritefirst-principleselectronic structuremagnetic properties