Identification of divacancies in 4H-SiC

• The P6/P7 centers in 4H-SiC were studied by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and ab initio supercell calculations. The hyperfine coupling constants of C and Si neighbors obtained by EPR are in good agreement with the calculated values for the neutral divacancy, VCVsi0. Our results suggest that the P6/P7 centers, which were previously assigned to the photo-excited triplet states of the carbon vacancy-carbon antisite pairs in the double positive charge state (VCCsi2+), are related to the triplet ground states of the C-3v/C-1h si configurations of VCVsi0 (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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divacancies

electron paramagnetic resonance

ab initio calculations

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