Stable fourfold configurations for small vacancy clusters in silicon from ab initio calculations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 25 I, 2004, Pages

  Makhov, D V ^a   Lewis, Laurent J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARBON; COALESCENCE; GEOMETRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUTRONS; OXYGEN; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROTONS;

DIVACANCIES; HEXAVACANCY; PENTAVACANCIES; TETRAVACANCY;

SILICON;

EID: 3543110243     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.255504     Document Type: Article

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