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Energetic states of isolated native defects in cubic boron pnictides

Conference ·
OSTI ID:230170
 [1]; ;  [2]
  1. Indiana Univ., PA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Houston, TX (United States); and others

The major chemical trends in the deep-energy levels of isolated sp{sup 3}-bonded substitutional native defects are reported for the first time in boron pnictides. Band structure calculations, based on a second-neighbor tight-binding theory, are presented for BN, BP, and BAs and the results are obtained for the electronic energy states of substitutional (isolated) defects in the Green`s-function framework. For sp{sup 3}-bonded impurities, a perturbation potential in the modified central-cell atomic like configuration is considered in which the off-diagonal elements in the perturbation matrix are systematically incorporated. Calculated results for the bound electronic states of isolated vacancies in BN are compared and discussed with the experimental data.

OSTI ID:
230170
Report Number(s):
CONF-950840--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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