| Abstract: | Results are presented of a Hartree-Fock cluster study of interstitial Ti, V, Cr, and Mn impurities in silicon. A Si10 cluster models the nearest Si atoms around a tetrahedral interstitial site in crystalline Si. The dangling bonds of the Si atoms are saturated by hydrogens. The effect of the Si core electrons is represented by an effective potential. Characteristic for the electronic structure of the low-lying states of the neutral, singly positive, and doubly positive ions in silicon is the presence of fairly delocalized but still predominantly transition-metal (3d)-like orbitals of t2 and e symmetry. For all ions the energy of the weighted average of the terms belonging to a configuration is lowest for the configuration with maximum occupation of the t2 orbitals. Ground states with maximum spin multiplicity are found for all ions, except Ti0. |
