We present the formalism and demonstrate the use of the overlapping muffin-tin approximation. This fits a full potential to a superposition of spherically symmetric short-ranged potential wells plus a constant. For one-electron potentials of this form, the standard multiple-scattering methods can solve Schrödingers' equation correctly to 1st order in the potential overlap. Choosing an augmented-plane-wave method as the source of the full potential, we illustrate the procedure for diamond-structured Si. First, we compare the potential in the Si-centered overlapping muffin-tin approximation with the full potential, and then compare the corresponding overlapping muffin-tin approximation N-th order muffin-tin orbital and full-potential linear augmented plane wave band structures. We find that the two latter agree qualitatively for a wide range of overlaps and that the valence bands have a root mean squared deviation of 20 meV/electron for 30% radial overlap. Smaller overlaps give worse potentials and larger overlaps give larger 2nd-order errors of the multiple-scattering method. To further remove the mean error of the bands for small overlaps is simple.
In this study the technique of Laplace transform (high resolution) deep level transient spectroscopy combined with the uniaxial stress method has been used to study a symmetry and the defect reconfiguration kinetics (the stress induced alignment) of some forms of hydrogen-related centres. We have confirmed the trigonal symmetry of the defect related to the isolated bond centred hydrogen. When hydrogen decorates the vacancy-oxygen pair (the A centre) the apparent defect orthorhombic symmetry is not lowered as a result of a very high hydrogen jumping rate between two unsaturated broken bonds of the vacancy. We also show that the stress-induced defect alignment in some cases can be related to the same microscopic mechanism of the hydrogen motion as it is for the diffusion process.
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