화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol.88, No.1, 1-14, 2005
Codoping and grain-boundary cosegregation of substitutional cations in alpha-Al2O3: A density-functional-theory study
The rhombohedral twin boundary of Corundum is used as a model interface for a theoretical case study of codoping and grain-boundary cosegregation of substitutional aliovalent and isovalent cations in Alumina ceramics. This highly ordered interface exemplifies (a) a computational ab initio analysis of electronic structures and total energies by means of the density functional theory, and (b) detailed microscopic insights into fundamental mechanisms of structure and bonding at interfaces related to substitutional cation impurities and dopants.