TIGHT-BINDING STUDY OF THE ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE OF AMORPHOUS-SILICON

Citation:
Mercer, JL, Chou MY.  1991.  TIGHT-BINDING STUDY OF THE ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE OF AMORPHOUS-SILICON, Mar. Physical Review B. 43:6768-6771., Number 8

Abstract:

We have performed tight-binding calculations on a model of an amorphous silicon sample generated previously by a molecular-dynamics simulation employing the Stillinger-Weber potential. The sample consists of 588 atoms and contains a high density of floating-bond defects. Two tight-binding calculations are presented, one using the widely accepted Chadi parameters, which include only nearest-neighbor interactions, and the other using the parameters recently proposed by Allen, Broughton, and McMahan (ABM) [Phys. Rev. B 34, 859 (1986)] for a nonorthogonal basis set. Comparison of the densities of states shows similar behavior in the valence band, but the electron density near a defect is less localized with the ABM parameters. It is also found that the projected density of states on the fivefold-coordinated atoms is very close to that on the fourfold-coordinated atoms, while the projected density of states on the threefold-coordinated atoms is distinctly different and has more states in the gap.

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