Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
1997-03-24
Phys. Rev. B 56, 9469 (1997)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
21 pages of Latex, 5 eps figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.56.9469
We present a computational study of the electronic properties of amorphous SiO2. The ionic configurations used are the ones generated by an earlier molecular dynamics simulations in which the system was cooled with different cooling rates from the liquid state to a glass, thus giving access to glass-like configurations with different degrees of disorder [Phys. Rev. B 54, 15808 (1996)]. The electronic structure is described by a tight-binding Hamiltonian. We study the influence of the degree of disorder on the density of states, the localization properties, the optical absorption, the nature of defects within the mobility gap, and on the fluctuations of the Madelung potential, where the disorder manifests itself most prominently. The experimentally observed mismatch between a photoconductivity threshold of 9 eV and the onset of the optical absorption around 7 eV is interpreted by the picture of eigenstates localized by potential energy fluctuations in a mobility gap of approximately 9 eV and a density of states that exhibits valence and conduction band tails which are, even in the absence of defects, deeply located within the former band gap.
Kob Walter
Koslowski Thorsten
Vollmayr Katharina
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