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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik
HL 25: Poster: Nitrides
HL 25.5: Poster
Monday, March 20, 2017, 15:00–19:00, P2-OG2
Ab initio metal-insulator transition in doped silicon — Edoardo G. Carnio1, Nicholas D. M. Hine1, and •Rudolf A. Römer1,2 — 1Department of Physics, The University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK — 2Centre for Scientific Computing, The University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
The Anderson metal-insulator transition (MIT) has long been studied, but there is still no agreement on its critical exponent when comparing experiments and theory. In this work, we employ ab initio methods to study the MIT that occurs in sulfur-doped silicon (Si:S) when the concentration of the dopants is increased. We use linear-scaling DFT, as implemented in the ONETEP code, to study model Si:S systems at realistic concentrations (i.e. a few impurities, in a large simulation cell). We then use the resulting ab initio Hamiltonian to build an effective tight-binding Hamiltonian for larger systems close to the critical concentration of the MIT. We finally use multifractal finite-size scaling to characterise the MIT in Si:S, including the ab-initio-determined possible interactions between the donated electrons.