Structural properties of NaBeH3 material: Ab-initio calculations

Abstract

Ab-initio calculations from first principle methods were performed toinvestigate the structural properties of perovskite-type hydride NaBeH3material. The pseudopotential plane-wave approach in the framework ofdensity functional theory (DFT) as implemented in the ABINIT codecomputer was used. The exchange-correlation functional for all elementsof our material of interest was described with the local densityapproximation (LDA). Our results of the equilibrium lattice parameter, thebulk modulus, and the pressure derivative of the bulk modulus of cubicNaBeH3 semiconducting material were found at around 3.335 Å (3.339Å), 65.64 GPa and 3.56, respectively. Our data are in good agreementwith the available theoretical data of the literature. In addition, the meltingpoint of our material of interest was calculated and found equal to 1217.45K. To the best of the authors' knowledge, no data is available in theliterature on the melting point of NaBeH 3 material.