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Electronic Structure and Optical Properties in Uranium Dioxide: the First Principle Calculations |
| SUI Peng-Fei1, DAI Zhen-Hong1**, ZHANG Xiao-Ling2, ZHAO Yin-Chang3 |
1Computational Physics Laboratory, Institute Opto-Electronic Information Technology, Yantai University, Yantai 264005
2Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190
3Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
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SUI Peng-Fei, DAI Zhen-Hong, ZHANG Xiao-Ling et al 2015 Chin. Phys. Lett. 32 077101 |
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Abstract We report a study of the electronic structure and optical properties of uranium dioxide (UO2) based on the ab-initio density-functional theory and using the generalized gradient approximation. To correctly describe the strong correlation between 5f electrons of a uranium atom, we employ the on-site Hubbard U correction term and optimize the correlation parameter of the bulk uranium dioxide. Then we give the structural and electronic properties of the ground state of uranium dioxide. Based on the accurate electronic structure, we calculate the complex dielectric function of UO2 and the related optical properties, such as reflectivity, refractive index, extinction index, energy loss spectra, and absorption coefficient.
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Received: 15 February 2015
Published: 30 July 2015
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71.15.Mb
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(Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections)
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71.20.-b
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(Electron density of states and band structure of crystalline solids)
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71.30.+h
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(Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions)
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78.20.Ci
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(Optical constants (including refractive index, complex dielectric constant, absorption, reflection and transmission coefficients, emissivity))
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