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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 65, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.65.193306
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A model is proposed for vacancy mediated diffusion in disordered alloys, with particular application to Ge self-diffusion in Si1-xGex. We argue that if the vacancies formation energies (VFE) have a strong dependence on the configuration of nearest neighbor (NN) atoms, there will be preferential diffusion paths for some concentrations. For Si1-xGex we show that the VFE vary linearly from 2 to 3 eV as the number of NN Ge atoms varies from 4 to 0. Thus, the equilibrium population of the various kinds of vacancies changes significantly with x, and the diffusion proceeds by paths that do not necessarily resemble the concentration of the alloy.
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