<italic>Ab initio</italic> calculations on oxygen vacancy defects in strained amorphous silica

Ab initio calculations on oxygen vacancy defects in strained amorphous silica

Zhou Bao-Hua^{1, †}, Zhang Fu-Jie¹, Liu Xiao¹, Song Yu^{2, 3}, Zuo Xu^{1, 4, ‡, ‡}

Calculated stress plotted versus the applied strain to the a-SiO₂ model. The black and red lines represent the total stress and the stress in Z direction, respectively. The a-SiO₂ model is illustrated in the inset.