Defects self compensation

The doping can be affected by native defects such as vacancies (Vo and VN), self-interstitials (Gai and Nj) and antisites (GaN and Ng,). Such defects may cause self-compensation, e.g. when one tries to dope the material p-type, certain native defects which act as donors may spontaneously form and compensate the deliberately introduced acceptors. In GaN, a specific native defect was long believed to play an even more important role the nitrogen vacancy, which acts as a donor, was thought to occur in large concentrations, thereby causing unintentional n-type conductivity. 

Native defects have sometimes been invoked not just as sources of compensation, but as sources of doping. The nitrogen vacancy in GaN is a prime example for a long time the nitrogen vacancy was thought to be the source of n-type conductivity in GaN. As early as 1983 it was pointed out that unintentional incorporation of oxygen was a more likely explanation [1], Still, it is only recently that unintentional impurities have become widely accepted as the source of n-type conductivity, thanks in part to contributions from first-principles theory (see Datareview A8.1). In this Datareview we will describe some of those theoretical results, for vacancies as well as other native defects (self-interstitials and antisites). Experimental information about native defects in the nitrides is very scarce at this time we will include references where available. 

The II-VI compounds have a larger ionicity than the III-V compounds, and it was first assumed that most of the residual donors and acceptors were due to the lattice defects like the anion and cation vacancies (Vn and VVi) and to group-II and group)-VI interstitial atoms, but it was later found that in most cases, group-1 and group)-V impurities were involved [118]. In some of these compounds, Li occupies a group-II site, where it is an acceptor, but it can also be present in the interstitial form, leading to self-compensation. 

Furthermore, if Mg is self-compensated to form both substimtional and interstitial defects, the reaction is given by ... 

It is also possible that the Mg is self-compensating and forms both substitutional and interstitial defects ... 

Fig. 3 shows the formation energy of the As antisite defect as a function of (Mn). The curves correspond to various concentrations of the antisite defects. The formation energy for x = 0.04 is used as a reference. The formation energy is in all cases decreasing function of x. It is reduced approximately by 0.01 Ry, if the Mn concentration increases by a few atomic percent. This means that the number of the antisite defects can be considerably enhanced in the presence of Mn. This eflfect may contribute to the self-compensation behavior of (Ga,Mn)As alloys. 

First-principles calculations have also been performed for formation energies of native defects in AIN [8,9], The main conclusions are similar to those for GaN self-interstitials and antisites are high in energy - with the exception of the A1 interstitial in cubic AIN, which is a triple donor and could act as a compensating centre in p-type material. 

To improve upon these defects, one has to go beyond the LDA The (modified) weighted density approximation [189] retains the correct asymptotic behaviour of and improves the response properties of metal clusters [162, 165]. A different route to improvement provides the self-interaction correction (SIC) of Perdew Zunger [37], where the spurious self-interaction of the LDA is compensated by additional terms in the ground-state potential [166] and in the effective perturbing potential as well [167] (Full-SIC[... 

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Pathology is observed only within certain limits. Lesions that are incompatible with the survival of an organism, even at the earliest stages of life, are usually undetected because the victims die before they can be observed. Likewise, those defects which are very slight and which lie within the normal limits of variation, homeostasis or compensation, are not self-evident and are usually found only by deliberate search. 

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