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Poisson Ratio and Covalency - Ionicity

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Author(s)

H M. Ledbetter, Sung Kim

Abstract

For twenty-one 8-N (octet) compounds, we consider the dependence of the Poisson ratio upsilion} on fractional covalent-ionic character estimated from atomic electronegativites. Compounds with ionicity approaching 1.0 show Poisson ratios near the upper bound: υ = 0.5. Increasing covalency moves υ toward zero, the effective lower bound. Especially, we focus on tetrahedral semiconductors where ionicity rannges from 0 to 0.6. We find that the Poisson ratio increases with increasing ionicity.
Citation
Poisson Ratio and Covalency - Ionicity
Publisher Info
Handbook of Elastic Properties of Solids, Fluids, and Gases ,
Pub Type
Books

Keywords

constants, covalency, elastic, ionicity, Poisson ratio, semiconductors

Citation

Ledbetter, H. and Kim, S. (2008), Poisson Ratio and Covalency - Ionicity, Handbook of Elastic Properties of Solids, Fluids, and Gases , (Accessed October 14, 2025)

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Created October 16, 2008
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