Abstract

We have performed calculations on the fullerene cage and stacked structures of neutral and ionic Si 50 cluster by full-potential linear-muffin-tin-orbital molecular-dynamics (FP-LMTO-MD) method. It is found that the neutral and charged fullerene cages relax into distorted structures resembling puckered balls. Their electronic structures are remarkably similar besides their geometrical structures. However, the relaxed cages are still not so stable as the stacked structure built from tricapped trigonal prism. By comparison, for the fullerene cages and stacked structures of neutral and ionic Si 60 cluster, similar characteristics are found.

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