Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
1998-08-29
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phys
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.478279
Three different clusters, Si_9H_12, Si_15H_16, and Si_21H_20, are used in density-functional theory calculations in conjunction with ab initio pseudopotentials to study how the energetics of H_2 dissociativ e adsorption on and associative desorption from Si(001) depends on the cluster size. The results are compared to five-layer slab calculations using the same pseudopotentials and high qu ality plane-wave basis set. Several exchange-correlation functionals are employed. Our analysis suggests that the smaller clusters generally overestimate the activation barriers and reaction energy. The Si_21H_20 cluster, however, is found to predict reaction energetics, with E_{a}^{des}=56 +- 3 kcal/mol (2.4 +- 0.1 eV), reasonably close (though still different) to that obtained from the slab calculations. Differences in the calculated activation energies are discussed in relation to the efficiency of clusters to describe the properties of the clean Si(001)-2x1 surface.
Kratzer Peter
Penev Evgeni
Scheffler Marc
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