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COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 22, Issue 1-2, Pages 38-43Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-0256(01)00162-8
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We have investigated the properties of two Sigma = 7 [0001] twist grain boundaries in ZOO using ab initio plane wave pseudopotential density functional theory. The calculations confirm the stability of the atomic models and enable a comparison between two energetically similar boundaries which exhibit bond stretching and bending. It is shown that shallow states exist as a consequence of the distortions in the grain boundaries, but no deep states. One of the boundaries was doped with a substitutional Sb impurity and it was seen that electron localisation takes place in the form of a weak Sb-metal host bond across the interface raising the possibility of further stabilisation of the boundary. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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