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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 128, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2883997
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The electron affinity of GaN and Ga2N as well as the geometries and the dissociation energies of the ground states of gallium nitrides GaN, GaN-, Ga2N, and Ga2N- were systematically studied by employing the coupled cluster method, RCCSD(T), in conjunction with a series of basis sets, (aug-)cc-pVxZ(-PP), x=D, T, Q, and 5 and cc-pwCVxZ(-PP), x=D, T, and Q. The calculated dissociation energy and the electron affinity of GaN are 2.12 and 1.84 eV, respectively, and those of Ga2N are 6.31 and 2.53 eV. The last value is in excellent agreement with a recent experimental value for the electron affinity of Ga2N of 2.506 +/- 0.008 eV. For such quality in the results to be achieved, the Ga 3d electrons had to be included in the correlation space. Moreover, when a basis set is used, which has not been developed for the number of the electrons which are correlated in a calculation, the quantities calculated need to be corrected for the basis set superposition error. (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics.
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