Activation energies for the formation and evaporation of vacancy clusters in silicon

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Abdulmalik, D A ^a   Coleman, P G ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; EVAPORATION; HEATING; IMPURITIES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY;

DIVACANCIES; VACANCY CLUSTERS; VACANCY-CLUSTER BINDING;

SILICON;

EID: 40849145734     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.095503     Document Type: Article

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