Stability and bandgap of semiconductor clusters

被引:57
作者
Joswig, JO [1 ]
Roy, S [1 ]
Sarkar, P [1 ]
Springborg, M [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Saarbrucken, D-66123 Saarbrucken, Germany
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D O I
10.1016/S0009-2614(02)01421-5
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Using a parameterized density-functional method we have studied the structural and electronic properties of different II-VI and III-V semiconductor clusters. We studied finite parts of the zincblende and wurtzite crystal structure for CdS, CdSe, InP, and ZnO and allowed the structures to relax to the closest total-energy minimum. Both stoichiometric and non-stoichiometric naked clusters were considered. We found (i) that the relative stability of the zincblende- and the wurtzite-derived clusters depends on the size of the structure, (ii) that the total-energy per atom is a non-smooth function of the size, and (iii) a correlation between the size of the HOMO-LUMO bandgap and the stability of the cluster. The implications of these results for the experimental analysis of the size distributions are discussed. (C) 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
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