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Local density functional is investigated using the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method for YN in the hexagonal structure and the rocksalt structure and for hexagonal structures linking a layered hexagonal phase with wurtzite structure along a homogeneous strain transition path. It is found that the wurtzite YN is unstable and the layered hexagonal phase, labeled as h o, in which atoms are approximately fivefold coordinated, is metastable, and the rocksalt ScN is stable. The electronic structure, the physical properties of the intermediate structures and the energy band structure along the transition are presented. It is noticeable that the study of ScN provides an opportunity to apply this kind of material (in wurtzite[h]-derived phase).
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Guan, P., Wang, C. & Yu, T. Electronic structure and physical properties of stable and metastable phases in YN: density-functional theory calculations. Chin. Sci. Bull. 53, 3131–3137 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-008-0414-2
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