Abstract
Experiments have established two modes of enhanced oxygen diffusion in silicon, one involving only oxygen atoms and the other catalyzed by hydrogen. We report state-of-the-art first-principles calculations and determine migration pathways for a self-enhanced mode via oxygen dimers and for the H-enhanced mode via oxygen-hydrogen complexes. The concerted atomic motions are physically transparent and the corresponding reduced activation energies agree with experimental data.
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