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Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Interstitial Defect Diffusion in Silicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

David A. Richie ,
Jeongnim Kim ,
Richard Hennig ,
Kaden Hazzard ,
Steve Barr  and
John W. Wilkins
David A. Richie
Affiliation:
High Performance Technologies, Inc., Aberdeen, MD, U.S.A.
Jeongnim Kim
Affiliation:
NCSA/MCC, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, U.S.A.
Richard Hennig
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Kaden Hazzard
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Steve Barr
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
John W. Wilkins
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
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Abstract

The simulation of defect dynamics and evolution is a technologicaly relevant challenge for computational materials science. The diffusion of small defects in silicon unfolds as a sequence of structural transitions. The relative infrequency of transition events requires simulation over extremely long time scales. We simulate the diffusion of small interstitial clusters (I1, I2, I3) for a range of temperatures using large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with a realistic tight-binding potential. A total of 0.25 μ sec of simulation time is accumulated for the study. A novel real-time multiresolution analysis (RTMRA) technique extracts stable structures directly from the dynamics without structural relaxation. The discovered structures are relaxed to confirm their stability.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 731: Symposium W – Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Materials Behavior and Evolution , 2002 , W9.10
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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