Investigation of structural, electronic and magnetic properties of LiX2Y (X:Rh, Cu, Pd, Ni, Y: Ge, Si) Heusler compounds by using density functional theory

In this study we investigated structural, electronic and magnetic properties of LiX2Y (X: Rh, Cu, Pd, Ni Y: Ge, Si) eight Heusler phase compounds with Density Functional Theory based FP-LAPW method implemented in Wien2k packet. We obtained the lattice constant of compounds, total energy and bulk modulus. The calculated unit cell parameters based on four different (PBE-GGA, WC-GGA, LDA and PBEsol) potentials were compared with each other and experimental data. It is seen that PBE-GGA potential gives the best result in the calculation of the structural properties of these compounds. The DOS graph of the compounds and the electronic band graph were drawn depended on the spin orientations. It is understood that all structures exhibit metallic properties regardless of spin orientations. Half-metallic property did not detected in any compounds. In order to determine the magnetic properties of the compounds, the PBE-GGA spin polarized calculations was carried out and the magnetic moments of the structures were obtained. the total magnetic moment of the all compounds have small values. Results shows The LiPd2Ge, LiCu2Ge, LiCu2Si, LiNi2Si and LiNi2Ge compounds have paramagnetic properties and LiRh2Ge, LiRh2Si and LiPd2Si have diamagnetic features. Elastic properties of structures were investigated using cubic-elastic code developed by M. Jamal. We calculated elastic constants, bulk modulus, young modulus, shear modulus and poisson ratio of all compounds. It is seen that all the structures were mechanically stable because they confirmed to Born's criteria. The obtained results have good agreement with previous works and experimental results.