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Binary rare earth hexaborides (REB6) have different rare earth elements with different valence electron distributions, which lead to different strange physical properties and different emission properties. However, in the electron emission properties, whether PrB6, NdB6, SmB6 and GdB6 all have excellent emission properties remains to be further studied, and the physical mechanism affecting their emission properties needs investigating. In this paper, the electronic structures, work functions of typical binary single crystal REB6 (LaB6, CeB6, PrB6, NdB6, SmB6, GdB6) are studied by first principles calculations. The single crystal REB6 are prepared by optical zone melting method, and their thermionic electron emission properties are tested experimentally. The theoretical calculation results show that the typical binary REB6 have large densities of states near the Fermi level. The d-orbitals with broad distributions in conduction bands are beneficial to electron emission. The localized f-orbital electrons in valence bands are not conducive to their electron emission. The theoretical calculations of work functions of typical binary single crystal REB6 (100) surface are consistent with the analyses of their electronic structures. The theoretical calculation values of work functions are ordered as GdB6 (2.27 eV) < CeB6 (2.36 eV) < LaB6 (2.40 eV) < PrB6 (2.58 eV) < SmB6 (2.63 eV) < NdB6 (2.91 eV). The experimental test results of thermionic electron emission of single crystal show that the experimental thermionic electron properties are consistent with the theoretical ones. The LaB6 and CeB6 both have good thermionic and field emission properties, and the GdB6 has excellent field emission properties.
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Keywords:
- single crystal REB6 /
- first principles /
- work function /
- thermionic emission
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图 1 REB6的晶体结构示意图
Figure 1. Crystal structure of REB6.
图 2 典型二元REB6的能带结构图
Figure 2. Calculated electronic band structure of binary REB6.
图 3 典型二元REB6的总态密度
Figure 3. Calculated electronic total density of states (DOS) of binary REB6.
图 4 典型二元REB6的RE元素的分态密度
Figure 4. Calculated electronic partial density of states (PDOS) of binary REB6.
图 5 (a) REB6 (100)晶面的Slab模型; (b)计算获得的典型二元REB6 (100)晶面的费米能级和真空能级
Figure 5. (a) Slab model of REB6 (100) surface; (b) the calculated Fermi energy and vacuum energy of binary REB6 (100) surface.
图 6 光学区熔制备的典型二元单晶REB6 (a)实物照片; (b)摇摆曲线
Figure 6. Single crystal REB6 prepared by optical zone melting: (a) Photos; (b) rocking curves.
图 7 单晶REB6 (100)晶面的热发射电流密度
Figure 7. Thermionic emission current density of single crystal REB6 (100) surfaces.
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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