Binding energies of substitutional and interstitial donors in Si: many-electron effects.

Weiler H., Meskini N., Hanke W., Altarelli M.

It is shown that the inclusion of both electron-hole correlations and local-field effects in the intervalley matrix elements for point-charge impurities is indispensable for the binding energies. For a substitutional donor these many-electron effects reduce the binding energy by as much as 35\%, thus significantly strengthening the shallow character and introducing very good agreement with experiment (example Si:P). Combination of the authors' quantitative calculations with recent muon-decay experiments allows for a prediction of the interstitial muonium site in Si.
 

Physical Review B, 30 2266-9, 1984.


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