Computational study of structures and electronic properties of SimGen (m+n=9) clusters

Wu Li-Jun; Sui Qiang-Tao; Zhang Duo; Zhang Lin; Qi Yang

doi:10.7498/aps.64.042102

Abstract

The researches of the structural and electronic properties of silicon and germanium clusters are of great significance for developing novel microelectronic materials. This paper aims to study the geometric structures and electronic properties of SimGen (m+n=9) clusters by combining genetic algorithm and density functional tight binding method. The study shows that there are two low energy stable atomic stacking configurations for SimGen(m+n = 9) clusters: one is a pentagon double cone stacking two small adjacent pyramids, the other is a tetrahedron close packing with a Ge atom on a bridge. Both stacking configurations are changed greatly with gradually increasing the Ge atom number in the cluster. The shape of the lowest-energy configuration changes from the pentagon double cone stacking two adjacent pyramids on the same side into the pentagon double cone stacking two adjacent pyramids on both sides of the up and down. With this change, the electron distribution and the gap of the highest occupied molecular orbital and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital gap are obviously dependent on the difference in components of Ge and Si elements contained.

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Authors and contacts

1.
College of Science, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China;
2.
College of Science, Shenyang Ligong University, Shenyang 110159, China
Funds: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB606403), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. N110205001), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51171044).

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