Point defects in pure amorphous silicon and their role in structural relaxation: A tight-binding molecular-dynamics study

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Urli, Xavier ^a   Dias, Cristiano L ^a,b   Lewis, Laurent J ^a   Roorda, Sjoerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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EID: 42049102649     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.155204     Document Type: Article

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