Abstract
The atomic processes for the growth of diamond were studied on a single crystalline β-SiC substrate in a hydrogen-free environment. All calculations were performed using the density functional theory (DFT), norm-conserving, fully separable pseudopotentials and a plane-wave basis with a cutoff energy of 40 Ry. The results show that among the isoelectronic group-V atoms, atomic species of a larger size acts as a better surfactant for the heteroepitaxial growth of diamond on β-SiC.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 125504 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1255041-1255044 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| State | Published - 25 Mar 2002 |