Study of Madelung constants of complex ionic crystals

Wei Jia Zhang, Tian Min Wang

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Abstract

A new formula together with the computing method for calculating Madelung constant a is given, based on the parallelepiped neutral cells which are situated around the reference cell, of which 26 such cells constitute the first shell and 98,218, ..., 24 N2 + 2 cells constitute the second, third, ..., and the, Nth shell respectively. The α(N) is a rapidly converging series and can be calculated very easily. In this paper Madelung constants and Madelung energy for some complex ionic crystals have been computed by this new method which can be applied to all kinds of complex ionic crystals of trigonal, orthorhombic system and so on.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)565-573
Number of pages9
JournalWuli Xuebao/Acta Physica Sinica
Volume54
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2005
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Complex ionic crystal
  • Madelung constant
  • Madelung energy

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