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Total Energy Differences Between Silicon Carbide Polytypes and their Implications for Crystal Growth
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
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The energy differences between various SiC polytypes are calculated using the full-potential linear muffin-tin orbital method and analyzed in terms of the anisotropie next nearest neighbor interaction (ANNNI) model. The fact that J1 + 2J2 < 0 with J1 > 0 implies that twin boundaries in otherwise cubic material are favorable unless twins occur as nearest neighbor layers. Contrary to some other recent calculations we find J1 > |J2|. We discuss the consequences of this for stabilization of cubic SiC in epitaxial growth, including considerations of the island size effects.
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