GaP/Si: Studying Semiconductor Growth Characteristics with Realistic Quantum-Chemical Models

Andreas Stegmüller and Ralf Tonner ()
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Andreas Stegmüller: Philipps-Universität Marburg, Fachbereich Chemie
Ralf Tonner: Philipps-Universität Marburg, Fachbereich Chemie

A chapter in High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ‘14, 2015, pp 205-218 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The understanding of microscopic processes and properties is crucial for the development and efficient production of inorganic III/V semiconductor materials. Those materials are grown in chemical vapour deposition procedures where elementary steps have not yet been thoroughly understood. Ab initio calculations are capable to investigate those atomic and electronic properties. Modern implementations of Density Functional Theory were applied to study layered bulk structures, periodic surface properties and adatom transport on Si(001) and GaP-Si(001) materials. By increasing cell sizes and number of atoms to scales that only supercomputing facilities can handle, a realistic chemical environment can be modeled with increased structural degrees of freedom. Bulk supercells were constructed in order to model realistic interfaces between two thin films in the nanometer scale. Supercell models in slab geometry were set up and converged with respect to the volume of vacuum and number of relaxed atoms for an accurate description of slab surfaces. These studies enable a direct comparison to experimental studies on these materials.

Keywords: Density Functional Theory; Surface Reconstruction; Vacuum Region; Hessian Matrice; Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10810-0_15

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