Role of screening in the density functional applied to transition-metal defects in semiconductors

• We study selected transition-metal-related point defects in silicon and silicon carbide semiconductors by a range-separated hybrid density functional (HSE06). We find that HSE06 does not fulfill the generalized Koopmans' theorem for every defect, which is due to the self-interaction error in the functional in such cases. Restoring the so-called generalized Koopmans' condition with a simple correction in the functional can eliminate this error and brings the calculated charge transition levels remarkably close to the experimental data as well as to the calculated quasiparticle levels from many-body perturbation theory.

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