Predictive Process Simulation and Ab-initio Calculation of the Physical Volume of Electrons in Silicon

	Nanotech 2002 Vol. 2 Technical Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Computational Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Chapter 9: Quantum Effects, Quantum Devices and Spintronics
	Predictive Process Simulation and Ab-initio Calculation of the Physical Volume of Electrons in Silicon
Authors:	W. Windl and M.S. Daw
Affilation:	Ohio State University, US
Pages:	197 - 200
Keywords:	semiconductor, stress-mediated diffusion, ab-initio calculations, electron size
Abstract:	Recently, we have presented the development of a complete predictive simulation capability for the effects of general anisotropic nonuniform stress on dopant diffusion in silicon [M. Laudon, N. N. Carlson, M. P. Masquelier, M. S. Daw, and W. Windl, Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 201 (2001)]. As a by-product of these calculations, we calculated a physical volume of 15 3 for electrons in Si from first-principles which is the topic of the present paper. It is argued that the physical electron volume that we have calculated for the silicon solid can be considered to represent a lower boundary for the effective size of semiconductor electrons that needs to be taken into account in quantum transport simulations.
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ISBN:	0-9708275-6-3
Pages:	504
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