Carbides and nitrides of zirconium and hafnium

SV Ushakov, A Navrotsky, QJ Hong, A van de Walle - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Among transition metal carbides and nitrides, zirconium, and hafnium compounds are the
most stable and have the highest melting temperatures. Here we review published data on …

Zirconium nitride: A viable candidate for photonics and plasmonics?

P Patsalas - Thin Solid Films, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, transition metal nitrides received attention as potential alternative materials for
plasmonics due to their high electron conductivity and mobility, high melting point, chemical …

Barium–nitrogen phases under pressure: Emergence of structural diversity and nitrogen-rich compounds

B Huang, G Frapper - Chemistry of Materials, 2018 - ACS Publications
Although the potential of polynitrogen as a high-energy density material (HEDM) has
attracted attention, the difficulty of preserving polynitrogen thwarts attempts to discover …

First-principles study of piezoelectric properties and bonding analysis in (Mg, X, Al) N solid solutions (X= Nb, Ti, Zr, Hf)

K Hirata, H Yamada, M Uehara, SA Anggraini… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The enhancement mechanism of piezoelectric properties by codoping Mg+ X (X= Nb, Ti, Zr,
Hf) into aluminum nitride (AlN) was investigated by first-principles calculations. Theoretically …

Role of disorder in the synthesis of metastable zinc zirconium nitrides

R Woods-Robinson, V Stevanović, S Lany… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
In materials science, it is often assumed that ground-state crystal structures predicted by
density functional theory are the easiest polymorphs to synthesize. Ternary nitride materials …

Mechanical, tribological and electrochemical behavior of Zr-based ceramic thin films for dental implants

DF Zambrano, R Hernández-Bravo, A Ruden… - Ceramics …, 2023 - Elsevier
To determine the possibility of using new thin films architectures as biocompatible materials,
an experimental and computational study was performed to evaluate the mechanical …

Wetting of AlN by moten Cu-8.6 Zr-xTi ternary alloys at 1373 K

Q Lin, L Wang, R Sui - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The wetting of AlN by molten Cu-8.6 Zr-xTi (x= 0, 5, 7.5, and 10 at.%) ternary alloys was
conducted by the modified sessile drop method at 1373 K under a high vacuum. AlN cannot …

Alloying of monolayer zirconium nitride with magnesium and investigating its thermoelectric properties using dft calculations

F Shirvani, A Shokri, BA Ravan… - Solid State …, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials include an extensive spectrum of solid-state compounds capable
of converting thermal and electricity energies into each other. Due to their little harm to …

Structure and properties of ZrON coatings synthesized by cathodic arc evaporation

AS Kuprin, A Gilewicz, TA Kuznetsova, VA Lapitskaya… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
The transition metal oxynitrides are a coating material with decorative features due to their
adjustable color and good mechanical properties. The purpose of the research was to study …

Correlation between resistive switching characteristics and density of traps observed in Zr3N2 resistive switching memory devices with TiN barrier electrode

L Doowon, B Dongjoo, K Sungho, HD Kim - Ceramics International, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we present a correlation between the resistive switching (RS) characteristics
and the traps of Zr 3 N 2, which is based resistive random-access memory (RRAM) with a …