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A Formation Mechanism of X Level due to an Indium-Carbon Dimer in Silicon

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It is known that acceptor-carbon complexes have ionization energies less than those of the corresponding substitutional, separate acceptors in silicon. We present the formation mechanism for a shallower acceptor energy level called an X level that is due to an indium- carbon pair. Ab initio calculation methods were used to evaluate electronic structures and lattice relaxations of silicon with indium, carbon or a carbon-indium dimer. The results shows that the bonding interaction between the 5p orbitals of the indium atom and the 3sp orbitals of the silicon atoms bound with the indium atom mainly determines the ionization energy of the X level, and the ionic bonding interaction of the carbon atomic orbitals with the indium atomic orbitals in the X level enables the bonding interaction of the orbitals between the indium atom and the silicon atom to lower the corresponding indium acceptor level, and then to form the shallower X level.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volume 502)

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154-158

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.502.154

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April 2012

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Hiroyuki Kawanishi, Yoshinori Hayafuji

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Ab Initio Calculation, Co-Doping, Dimer Codopant, Dopant Energy Level, DV-Xα, Electronic Structure, Semiconductor, Shallow Junctions, Silicon, ULSI, VASP Code

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