Microscopic structure of oxygen defects in gallium arsenide

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© 1999 American Physical Society (APS). This is the accepted version of the following article: Pesola, M. & Boehm, J. von & Sammalkorpi, V. & Mattila, T. & Nieminen, Risto M. 1999. Microscopic structure of oxygen defects in gallium arsenide. Physical Review B. Volume 60, Issue 24. R16267-R16270. ISSN 1550-235X (electronic). DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.60.r16267, which has been published in final form at http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.60.R16267.
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School of Science | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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1999

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en

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R16267-R16270

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Physical Review B, Volume 60, Issue 24

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Accurate total-energy pseudopotential methods are used to study the structures, binding energies, and local vibrational modes of various models for the Ga-O-Ga defect in GaAs. We find that the previously proposed models, OAs (an off-centered substitutional oxygen in arsenic vacancy) and OI (an oxygen atom occupying a tetrahedral interstitial site), are inconsistent with experimental data. We introduce a model, (AsGa)2−OAs (two arsenic antisites and one off-centered substitutional oxygen in arsenic vacancy), the properties of which are in excellent agreement with experimental characterizations.

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GaAs, oxygen defects, structures, binding energies, local vibrational modes

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Pesola, M. & Boehm, J. von & Sammalkorpi, V. & Mattila, T. & Nieminen, Risto M. 1999. Microscopic structure of oxygen defects in gallium arsenide. Physical Review B. Volume 60, Issue 24. R16267-R16270. ISSN 1550-235X (electronic). DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.60.r16267.