• Christopoulos, Stavros-Richard G.
• Chroneos, Alexander
• Sgourou, En
• Papadopoulou, Konstantina A.
• Kuganathan, Navaratnarajah
• Londos, Charalampos A.

Abstract

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from World Scientific Publishing via the DOI in this record ; Nitrogen (N) is an important impurity in silicon (Si), which associates with impurities as well as with other defects to form defect complexes. The knowledge of the properties and behavior of defect structures containing carbon (C), N and oxygen (O) is important for the Si-based electronic technology. Here, we employ density functional theory (DFT) calculations to investigate the association of nitrogen with carbon and oxygen defects to form the CiN and CiNOi defects. We provide evidence of the formation of these defects and additional details of their structure, their density of states (DOS) and Bader charges. Therefore, CiN and CiNOi defects are now well characterized.

Topics

• density
• impedance spectroscopy
• Carbon
• theory
• Oxygen
• Nitrogen
• Silicon
• defect
• density functional theory
• defect structure