Electronic structure of silicon

Electronic Structure of Silicon-Based Nanostructures

We have developed an unifying tight-binding Hamiltonian that can account for the electronic properties of recently proposed Si-based nanostructures, namely, Si graphene-like sheets and Si nanotubes. We considered the sps and sp models up to firstand second-nearest neighbors, respectively. Our results show that the Si graphene-like sheets considered here are metals or zerogap semiconductors, and...

Approximate ab initio calculations of electronic structure of amorphous silicon

We report on ab initio calculations of electronic states of two large and realistic models of amorphous silicon generated using a modified version of the Wooten-Winer-Weaire algorithm and relaxed, in both cases, with a Keating and a modified Stillinger-Weber potentials. The models have no coordination defects and a very narrow bond-angle distribution. We compute the electronic density-of-states...

Electronic Structure of Silicon Nanowires Matrix from Ab Initio Calculations

An investigation of the model of porous silicon in the form of periodic set of silicon nanowires has been carried out. The electronic energy structure was studied using a first-principle band method-the method of pseudopotentials (ultrasoft potentials in the basis of plane waves) and linearized mode of the method of combined pseudopotentials. Due to the use of hybrid exchange-correlation potent...

Electronic structure of dangling and floating bonds in amorphous silicon.

The structure of electronic states in amorphous silicon.

We illustrate the structure and dynamics of electron states in amorphous Si. The nature of the states near the gap at zero temperature is discussed and especially the way the structure of the states changes for energies ranging from midgap into either band tail (Anderson transition). We then study the effect of lattice vibrations on the eigenstates, and find that electronic states near the opti...