Редактирование: Crystal: Graz 2012

Recent advances of nanotechnologies have increased interest to determination of mechanical properties of crystalline structures at nanolevel. Mechanical description of nanostructures is impossible without thorough knowledge about elastic characteristics of interatomic bonds. Molecular dynamics simulation of solids also requires parameterization of interatomic potentials to fit the known elastic properties. Although the existing potentials give acceptable description of the physical characteristics of solids, there is still existing problems in precise description of mechanical properties, and in particular the elastic properties of crystals when all components of the stiffness tensor of crystals are needed [M. Arroyo et al., 2004; I.E. Berinskiy et al., 2009]. The quantum mechanical analysis can give additional information for the interatomic potentials, however up to now this cannot solve all the problems for description of the anisotropic elastic properties of crystalline solids. An attractive way for obtaining the necessary information is to use connection between macroscopic elastic properties of ideal crystals and elastic properties of interatomic bonds, which can be obtained analytically on the basis of the long-wave approximation or elastic energy correlation. The attempts to obtain such analytical connections have been made for decades, starting with works by M. Born et al. [Born M.- Ann. Phys.1914, Bd. 44, S. 605], and in some cases they gave quite a good correspondence [Martin R. M. – Phys. Pev. B,1970, v.1, p.4005 ] [Keating P. N. Phys. Rev., 1966, v. 145, p. 637][Krivtsov 2010][Kuzkin 2011]

In the lecture a review of the models, connecting parameters of macroscopic stiffness tensor of ideal crystals and parameters of interatomic bonds are presented. For description of elastic properties of the atomic bonds three models are considered and compared: central force interaction, multibody interaction, moment interaction. For these models formulae giving explicit connection between macro and micro parameters for a wide range of crystalline structures are given, based on the original works of the authors and literature analysis. In particular...

 

Number of crystals with covalent preferred bonds are considered. They include diamond type crystals of the carbon group: C, Si, Ge, Sn, and crystals of sphalerite type, such as ZnS (sphalerite), BN, SiC, GaAs, and more then twenty other items. It is shown that moment model of atomic interaction describes with approximately equal precision both diamond and sphalerite type of crystal structures, while the other existing models are mainly orientated to one type of the structure and provide bigger errors or not acceptable for another type.

Summarizing the above it can be stated that the moment interaction gives the best description for the properties of interatomic bonds when the elastic properties of a wide number of crystalline structures should be described in a uniform manner.