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Tight-Binding Calculations of Complex Defects in Semiconductors: Comparison with AB Initio Results
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
Abstract
Complex defects in Si and SiC such as coincidence tilt boundaries, planar defects and self-interstitial clusters were dealt with by using the transferable tight-binding method for Si and the self-consistent tight-binding method for SiC. These results have been compared with ab initio calculations of similar configurations. Essential features of the tight-binding results have been supported by the ab initio results. Especially, the agreement on stable atomic configurations is good, although there exits a tendency that energy increases are somewhat overestimated by the tight-binding methods. Serious faults have been found for the electronic structure by the tight-binding method for SiC.
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