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All the defects considered here have been symmetry constrained -
C1h for NiOi, N2iO, C2v for Ni, etc. unless
stated otherwise. However we also breached the symmetry of the
defects and allowed them to relax; in every case they returned to the
constrained symmetry structure. A variety of different cluster sizes
have been used. Initial results were obtained using 113 atom
clusters, and the final results shown here come from 134 atom clusters
for the NNO work, and 148-152 atom clusters for the rest. The results
are qualitatively identical, showing them to be independent of cluster
size.
Chris Ewels
11/13/1997