Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of solids

WMC Foulkes, L Mitas, RJ Needs, G Rajagopal - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2001‏ - APS
This article describes the variational and fixed-node diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods
and how they may be used to calculate the properties of many-electron systems. These …

Hydrogen in semiconductors

CG Van de Walle, J Neugebauer - Annu. Rev. Mater. Res., 2006‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Hydrogen strongly affects the properties of electronic materials. Interstitial
monatomic hydrogen is always electrically active and usually counteracts the prevailing …

Defect migration in crystalline silicon

LJ Munro, DJ Wales - Physical Review B, 1999‏ - APS
A number of vacancy and interstitial defect migration mechanisms are characterized for
crystalline silicon using supercells containing 64 and 216 atoms and a tight-binding …

Interatomic potential for silicon defects and disordered phases

JF Justo, MZ Bazant, E Kaxiras, VV Bulatov, S Yip - Physical review B, 1998‏ - APS
We develop an empirical potential for silicon which represents a considerable improvement
over existing models in describing local bonding for bulk defects and disordered phases …

First principles impurity diffusion coefficients

M Mantina, Y Wang, LQ Chen, ZK Liu, C Wolverton - Acta Materialia, 2009‏ - Elsevier
We report the prediction of impurity diffusion coefficients entirely from first principles, using
density-functional theory (DFT) calculations. From DFT we obtain all microscopic parameters …

First-principles approach to chemical diffusion of lithium atoms in a graphite intercalation compound

K Toyoura, Y Koyama, A Kuwabara, F Oba… - Physical Review B …, 2008‏ - APS
We evaluate mean frequencies for atomic jumps in a crystal from first principles based on
transition state theory, taking lithium diffusion by the interstitial and vacancy mechanisms in …

Ab initio study of the migration of intrinsic defects in

M Bockstedte, A Mattausch, O Pankratov - Physical Review B, 2003‏ - APS
The diffusion of intrinsic defects in 3 C− SiC is studied using an ab initio method based on
density functional theory. The vacancies are shown to migrate on their own sublattice. The …

First-principles calculation of self-diffusion coefficients

M Mantina, Y Wang, R Arroyave, LQ Chen, ZK Liu… - Physical review …, 2008‏ - APS
We demonstrate a first-principles method to compute all factors entering the vacancy-
mediated self-diffusion coefficient. Using density functional theory calculations of fcc Al as an …

Ion beams in silicon processing and characterization

E Chason, ST Picraux, JM Poate, JO Borland… - Journal of applied …, 1997‏ - pubs.aip.org
General trends in integrated circuit technology toward smaller device dimensions, lower
thermal budgets, and simplified processing steps present severe physical and engineering …

Intrinsic defects in silicon

GD Watkins - Materials science in semiconductor processing, 2000‏ - Elsevier
A review is given of what has been learned from electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)
and localized vibrational mode (LVM) spectroscopy concerning isolated lattice vacancies …