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Publication
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Paper
Surface stress and relaxation in metals
Abstract
The surface stress, which characterizes the state of stress at the surface of a macroscopic crystal, is calculated from first principles by two methods for Mo(001) to be 3.1 mRyd bohr-2 = 2.4 J m-2. Both methods use the energy of a fully relaxed seven-layer slab as a function of the in-plane lattice parameter a. One method uses the slope and the other the curvature at particular values of a. Fully relaxed energies give surface stress values 40% smaller than partially relaxed energies which have relaxed just a single common layer spacing. The slab is divided into bulk and surface regions with different parameters. Estimates are made of the surface region parameters including its equilibrium in-plane lattice constant, its epitaxial elastic constant, its Poisson ratio for in-plane strains and its thickness.