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A period-doubled structure for the 90-degree partial dislocation in silicon

J. Bennetto, R. W. Nunes, David Vanderbilt

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/9704079

Abstract

We suggest that the commonly-accepted core structure of the 90-degree partial dislocation in Si may not be correct, and propose instead a period-doubled structure. We present LDA, tight-binding, and classical Keating-model calculations, all of which indicate that the period-doubled structure is lower in energy. The new structure displays a broken mirror symmetry in addition to the period doubling, leading to a wide variety of possible soliton-like defects and kinks.

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