A candidate for grain boundary pipe diffusion and intrinsic electrical activity in silicon

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Abstract

The high temperature behaviour of a Σ = 25 (710) symmetric tilt Grain Boundary (GB) has been investigated by molecular dynamics simulation in Si. The core structure first oscillates between several variants and rapidly disorders to pipe diffusion. In addition, a low energy non fully tetra co-ordinated structure is found which has electronic states in the gap.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)221-224
Number of pages4
JournalMaterials Science Forum
Volume207-209
Issue numberPART 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1996

Keywords

  • Boundary
  • Conditions
  • Grain Boundary
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Numerical Simulations
  • Silicon
  • Tight Binding

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