Sampling the diffusion paths of a neutral vacancy in Silicon with quantum mechanical calculations

Details Sampling the diffusion paths of a neutral vacancy in Silicon with quantum mechanical calculations Sampling the diffusion paths of a neutral vacancy in Silicon with quantum mechanical calculations

2003-08-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0308289v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Pysical review B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.205202

We report a first-principles study of vacancy-induced self-diffusion in crystalline silicon. Starting form a fully relaxed configuration with a neutral vacancy, we proceed to search for local diffusion paths. The diffusion of the vacancy proceeds by hops to first nearest neighbor with an energy barrier of 0.40 eV in agreement with experimental results. Competing mechanisms are identified, like the reorientation, and the recombination of dangling bonds by Wooten-Winer-Weaire process.

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