Advances and applications in the FIREBALL ab initio tight‐binding molecular‐dynamics formalism

JP Lewis, P Jelínek, J Ortega, AA Demkov… - … status solidi (b), 2011 - Wiley Online Library
One of the outstanding advancements in electronic‐structure density‐functional methods is
the Sankey–Niklewski (SN) approach [Sankey and Niklewski, Phys. Rev. B 40, 3979 (1989)]; …

Structure, electronics, and interaction of hydrogen and oxygen on diamond surfaces

SJ Sque, R Jones, PR Briddon - Physical review B, 2006 - APS
The atomic geometry and electronic structure of diamond surfaces, both clean and with
various hydrogen and oxygen terminations, have been studied using ab initio density …

Electron affinity and work function of differently oriented and doped diamond surfaces determined by photoelectron spectroscopy

L Diederich, OM Küttel, P Aebi, L Schlapbach - Surface science, 1998 - Elsevier
We investigate band bending, electron affinity and work function of differently terminated,
doped and oriented diamond surfaces by X-ray and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy …

Ab initio tight binding

AP Horsfield, AM Bratkovsky - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
Empirical tight binding has proven to be very popular in recent years on account of its
computational efficiency and accuracy. However, it has limitations, notably the difficulties …

C-Si interface on SiO2/(1 1 1) diamond p-MOSFETs with high mobility and excellent normally-off operation

X Zhu, T Bi, X Yuan, Y Chang, R Zhang, Y Fu, J Tu… - Applied Surface …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a diamond-silicon (C-Si) interface was constructed on a (1 1 1) diamond
substrate by annealing the SiO 2 gate insulator in a reductive atmosphere. Corresponding …

Diamond surface conductivity: Properties, devices, and sensors

CI Pakes, JA Garrido, H Kawarada - Mrs Bulletin, 2014 - cambridge.org
Hydrogen termination of diamond lowers its ionization energy, driving electron transfer from
the valence band into an adsorbed water layer or to a strong molecular acceptor. This gives …

Atomic and electronic structure of diamond (111) surfaces I. Reconstruction and hydrogen-induced de-reconstruction of the one dangling-bond surface

G Kern, J Hafner, G Kresse - Surface science, 1996 - Elsevier
We present ab-initio local-density functional calculations of the atomic and electronic
structure of the clean and hydrogen-covered one dangling-bond diamond (111) surfaces …

Adhesive transfer at copper/diamond interface and adhesion reduction mechanism with fluorine passivation: a first-principles study

Z Liu, S Zheng, Z Lu, J Pu, G Zhang - Carbon, 2018 - Elsevier
Tribological behavior of Cu is peculiar among soft metal when it rubs on diamond flat in
experiments, and passivating element F and H at Cu/diamond interface can affect …

Surface structure of aerobically oxidized diamond nanocrystals

A Wolcott, T Schiros, ME Trusheim… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We investigate the aerobic oxidation of high-pressure, high-temperature nanodiamonds (5–
50 nm dimensions) using a combination of carbon and oxygen K-edge X-ray absorption …

The (100), (111) and (110) surfaces of diamond: an ab initio B3LYP study

M De La Pierre, M Bruno, C Manfredotti… - Molecular …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
We present an accurate ab initio study of the structure and surface energy of the low-index
(100),(111) and (110) diamond faces, by using the hybrid Hartree–Fock/density functional …