Impurity at interstitial with probability less than 1.0.

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Impurity at interstitial with probability less than 1.0.

Post by Steve » Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:22 pm

The CPA approach works very nice.
But there is a problem with the impurity
placing at a interstitial with probability,
say 0.1. For example, the interstitial
is situated in the crystal AlN (zb structure)
at a point (1/2,1/2,1/2), and one needs to put the oxygen atom
with probability 0.1. The formula would be as Al1N1Vac0.9O0.1, wher Vac is situated
at a point (1/2,1/2,1/2). In case of the
probability 1.0 - no problem.
With respect, Steve.

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