Density functional theory calculations of stability and diffusion mechanisms of impurity atoms in Ge crystals

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (7) ◽  
pp. 073505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takahiro Maeta ◽  
Koji Sueoka
2005 ◽  
Vol 864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott A. Harrison ◽  
Thomas F. Edgar ◽  
Gyeong S. Hwang

AbstractBased on first principles density functional theory calculations, we identify the structure and diffusion pathway for a fluorine-silicon interstitial complex (F-Sii). We find the F-Sii complex to be most stable in the singly positive charge state at all Fermi leVels. At mid-gap, the complex is found to have a binding energy of 1.08 eV relative to bond-centered F+ and (110)-split Sii. We find the F-Sii complex has an overall migration barrier of 0.76 eV, which suggests that this complex may play an important role in fluorine diffusion. Our results should lead to more accurate models that describe the behavior of fluorine co-implants crystalline silicon.


2004 ◽  
Vol 810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taras A. Kirichenko ◽  
Decai Yu ◽  
Sanjay K. Banerjee ◽  
Gyeong S. Hwang

ABSTRACTUsing density functional theory calculations within the generalized gradient approximation, we have investigated the structure, energetics, bonding, and diffusion behavior of Si interstitials and boron-interstitial pairs at the Si/SiO2 interface. We find that interstitials are significantly stabilized at the Si/SiO2 interface and prefer to reside on the SiO2 side rather than the Si side. Due to the interstitial stabilization, boron-interstitial pairs are likely to be easily dissociated in the vicinity of the Si/SiO2 interface. This study provides valuable insight into interstitial annihilation and boron precipitation at the interface.


2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (13) ◽  
pp. 135002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haixuan Xu ◽  
Donghwa Lee ◽  
Susan B Sinnott ◽  
Volkmar Dierolf ◽  
Venkatraman Gopalan ◽  
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2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 1525-1531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Grochala

The enthalpy of four polymorphs of CaN has been scrutinized at 0 and 100 GPa using density functional theory calculations. It is shown that structures of diamagnetic calcium diazenide (Ca2N2) are preferred over the cubic ferromagnetic polymorph (CaN) postulated before, both at 0 and 100 GPa.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Chuen Lin ◽  
Phani Motamarri ◽  
Vikram Gavini

AbstractWe present a tensor-structured algorithm for efficient large-scale density functional theory (DFT) calculations by constructing a Tucker tensor basis that is adapted to the Kohn–Sham Hamiltonian and localized in real-space. The proposed approach uses an additive separable approximation to the Kohn–Sham Hamiltonian and an L1 localization technique to generate the 1-D localized functions that constitute the Tucker tensor basis. Numerical results show that the resulting Tucker tensor basis exhibits exponential convergence in the ground-state energy with increasing Tucker rank. Further, the proposed tensor-structured algorithm demonstrated sub-quadratic scaling with system-size for both systems with and without a gap, and involving many thousands of atoms. This reduced-order scaling has also resulted in the proposed approach outperforming plane-wave DFT implementation for systems beyond 2000 electrons.


2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 6016-6026
Author(s):  
Aydar Rakhmatullin ◽  
Maxim S. Molokeev ◽  
Graham King ◽  
Ilya B. Polovov ◽  
Konstantin V. Maksimtsev ◽  
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