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Journal
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The authors of the above paper call into question recent evidence on the properties of self-interstitials, I, in Ge [Cowern et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 155501 (2013)]. We show that this judgment stems from invalid model assumptions during analysis of data on B marker-layer diffusion during proton irradiation, and that a corrected analysis fully supports the reported evidence. As previously stated, I-mediated self-diffusion in Ge exhibits two distinct regimes of temperature, T: high-T, dominated by amorphous-like mono-interstitial clusters—i-morphs—with self-diffusion entropy ≈30 k, and low-T, where transport is dominated by simple self-interstitials. In a transitional range centered on 475 °C both mechanisms contribute. The experimental I migration energy of 1.84 ± 0.26 eV reported by the Münster group based on measurements of self-diffusion during irradiation at 550 °C 
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AIP Publishing LLC
Publication date: 
2 Sep 2015
Authors: 

NEB Cowern, S Simdyankin, JP Goss, E Napolitani, D De Salvador, E Bruno, S Mirabella, C Ahn, NS Bennett

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Volume: 2 Issue: 3 Pages: 036101
Origin: 
Applied Physics Reviews