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Off-Center N and O in Silicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Harold P. Hjalmarson ,
Dwight R. Jennison  and
J. S. Binkley
Harold P. Hjalmarson
Affiliation:
Sandia National LaboratoriesAlbuquerque, New Mexico 87185
Dwight R. Jennison
Affiliation:
Sandia National LaboratoriesAlbuquerque, New Mexico 87185
J. S. Binkley
Affiliation:
Sandia National LaboratoriesLivermore, California 94550
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Abstract

The pseudo Jahn-Teller effect and chemical rebonding are both considered as mechanisms that drive substitutional atoms, such as N in Si, off-center. By use of an effective Hamiltonian technique, impurities forming very deep levels, such as Si:N, are found to be susceptible to off-center displacement by the pseudo Jahn-Teller effect. Using a Hartree-Fock technique, we find two classes of N displacements which depend on the relaxation of the nearest-neighbor Si atom “cage”. For outward relaxation of the four nearest neighbors, the N displaces by 0.05 Å in the [111] direction and retains sp3 bonding; this mechanism appears equivalent to the pseudo Jahn-Teller effect. For inward relaxation of the “cage” by 0.45 Å the N displaces by 0.75 Å in the [111] direction and forms a trigonal sp2 bond; this is a chemical rebonding mechanism. Additional cluster calculations suggest that inward relaxation of the “cage” is likely. Similar calculations for 0 revealed a <100> displacement of approximately 1.1Å.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 59: Symposium K – Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen and Nitrogen in Crystalline Silicon , 1985 , 553
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1986

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