Theory of interstitial oxygen in silicon and germanium
| dc.creator | Artacho, Emilio | |
| dc.creator | Yndurain, Felix | |
| dc.date | 1995-09-20 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:07:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:07:56Z | |
| dc.description | The interstitial oxygen centers in silicon and germanium are reconsidered and compared in an analysis based on the first-principles total-energy determination of the potential-energy surface of the centers, and a calculation of their respective low energy excitations and infrared absorption spectra. The total-energy calculations reveal unambiguously that interstitial oxygen is quantum delocalized, the delocalization being essentially different in silicon and in germanium. Oxygen in silicon lies at the bond center site in a highly anharmonic potential well, whereas in germanium it is found to rotate almost freely around the original Ge-Ge bond it breaks. This different delocalization is the origin of the important differences in the low energy excitation spectra: there is a clear decoupling in rotation and vibration excitations in germanium, giving different energy scales (1 cm$^{-1}$ for the rotation, 200 cm$^{-1}$ for the $ν_2$ mode), whereas both motions are non-trivially mixed in silicon, in a common energy scale of around 30 cm$^{-1}$. The calculation of the vibrational spectra of the defect reveals the existence of vibrational modes (related to the $ν_1$ mode) never been experimentally observed due to their weak infrared activity. It is found that the combination of these modes with the well established $ν_3$ asymmetric stretching ones is the origin of the experimentally well characterized modes at frequencies above the $ν_3$ mode frequency. | |
| dc.description | 5 pages plain TeX. 6 Figures tared, compressed and uuencoded. Ask emilio@polar.fmc.uam.es for hardcopy via reg. mail if preferred. To appear in Materials Sci. Forum, Proc. 18 ICDS, Sendai, Japan | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9509127 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9509127 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/27361 | |
| dc.subject | Condensed Matter | |
| dc.subject | Materials Science | |
| dc.title | Theory of interstitial oxygen in silicon and germanium | |
| dc.type | text |