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SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 143, Issue 3, Pages 161-165Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2007.04.043
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semiconductors; thennal expansion
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The temperature dependence of the equilibrium lattice constants for five isotopically pure Ge crystals (Ge-70, Ge-72, Ge-73, Ge-74 and Ge-76) and naturally occurring Ge were calculated from ab initio electronic theory within the quasiharmonic approximation. It is shown that at very low temperature, calculations including zero point motions contribution to the free energy correctly reproduced the experimental unit cell parameters for the five isotopes. For Ge-70, Ge-74, Ge-76 and naturally occurring Ge, the predicted thermal expansion coefficients agree very well with experiments. The calculated thermal expansitivity for Ge-73 does not agree well with experiment. It is speculated that this anomaly may due to the non-zero nuclear spin of the Ge-73 isotope. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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