Bulletin of Materials Science

Volume 26, No. 1, January 2003

CONTENTS


Cover: Optimized structure of f-M@Si16 with M = Cr. For details, see p. 111.


Proceedings of the first conference of the “Asian Consortium for Computational Materials Science (ACCMS-1)”, Bangalore, 2001


FOREWORD 1


Density functional theory and multiscale materials modeling

Swapan K Ghosh

3


Realization of prediction of materials properties by ab initio computer simulation

Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

13


Third-generation muffin–tin orbitals

O K Andersen, T Saha-Dasgupta and S Ezhov

19


Tight-binding model for carbon from the third-generation LMTO method: A study of transferability

D Nguyen-Manh, T Saha-Dasgupta and O K Andersen

27


Projector augmented wave method: ab initio molecular dynamics with full wave functions

Peter E Blöchl, Clemens J Först and Johannes Schimpl

33


Environmentally dependent bond-order potentials: New developments and applications

D Nguyen-Manh, D G Pettifor, D J H Cockayne, M Mrovec, S Znam and V Vitek

43


Multi-scale modeling strategies in materials science—The quasicontinuum method

Vijay B Shenoy

53


Many electron effects in semiconductor quantum dots

R K Pandey, Manoj K Harbola, V Ranjan and Vijay A Singh

63


Obtaining Kohn–Sham potential without taking the functional derivative

Manoj K Harbola and K D Sen

69


Exchange–correlation errors at harmonic and anharmonic orders: the case of bulk Cu

Shobhana Narasimhan and Stefano de Gironcoli

75


A first-principles thermodynamic approach to ordering in binary alloys

Abhijit Mookerjee, Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, I Dasgupta, A Arya, S Banerjee and G P Das

79


Double stripe reconstruction of the Pt(111) surface

Raghani Pushpa and Shobhana Narasimhan

91


Site preference of Zr in Ti3Al and phase stability of Ti 2ZrAl

C Ravi and R Asokamani

97


Electronic properties of magnetically doped nanotubes

Keivan Esfarjani, Z Chen and Y Kawazoe

105


Novel caged clusters of silicon: Fullerenes, Frank–Kasper polyhedron and cubic

Vijay Kumar

109


Structures of Mn clusters

Tina M Briere, Marcel H F Sluiter, Vijay Kumar and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

115


Ground state structures and properties of small hydrogenated silicon clusters

R Prasad

117


Ground state structures and properties of Si3H n (n = 1–6) clusters

D Balamurugan and R Prasad

123


Application of genetic algorithms to hydrogenated silicon clusters

N Chakraborty and R Prasad

127


Theoretical study of superconductivity in MgB2 and its alloys

P P Singh

131


Electronic structure and superconductivity of MgB 2

D M Gaitonde, P Modak, R S Rao and B K Godwal

137


Oscillatory interlayer magnetic coupling and induced magnetism in Fe/Nb multilayers

Nitya Nath Shukla and R Prasad

143


Effect of Co on the magnetism and phase stability of lithiated manganese oxides

R Prasad, R Benedek and M M Thackeray

147


Simple explanation for the reentrant magnetic phase transition in Pr 0 × 5 Sr0 × 41 Ca0 × 09 MnO3 perovskite

B T Cong, P N A Huy, N H Long and D D Long

151


Total energy calculation of perovskite, BaTiO3, by self-consistent tight binding method

B T Cong, P N A Huy, P K Schelling and J W Halley

155


Linear and nonlinear optical properties of borate crystals as calculated from the first principles

Ding-Sheng Wang

159


Electronic structure and optical properties of thorium monopnictides

S Kumar and S Auluck

165


Variations in first principles calculated defect energies in GaAs and their effect on practical predictions

Deepak, D Balamurugan and K Nandi

169


On the electronic structure and equation of state in high pressure studies of solids

B K Godwal, P Modak and R S Rao

175


On the stability of rhenium up to 1 TPa pressure against transition to the bcc structure

A K Verma, P Ravindran, R S Rao, B K Godwal and R Jeanloz

183


Spinodal decomposition in fine grained materials

H Ramanarayan and T A Abinandanan

189


A study of phase separation in ternary alloys

Saswata Bhattacharyya and T A Abinandanan

193


Effect of alloying on the electronic structure and magnetic properties of Fe, Co and Ni with Au and Ag

Ashish Bhattacharjee, Mesbahuddin Ahmed, Abhijit Mookerjee and Amal Haldar

199


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