A Radial Distribution Function Based Recognition Algorithm of Point Defects in Large-Scale β-Ga2O3 Systems

The atomic configurations and concentrations of intrinsic defects profoundly influence the electrical and optical properties of the semiconductor materials. This influence is particularly significant in the case of β-Ga₂O₃, which is a highly promising ultrawide bandgap semiconductor characterized by highly complex intrinsic defect configurations. Despite its importance, there is a notable absence of an accurate method to recognize these defects in large-scale atomistic computational modeling. We design an effective algorithm for the explicit identification of various intrinsic point defects in the β-Ga₂O₃ lattice, which constitutes the integration of the particle swarm optimization (PSO) and K-means clustering (K-MC) methods. Our algorithm attains the recognition accuracy exceeding 95%. Finally, the algorithm is applied to dynamic simulations, where the feasibility of dynamic real-time detection is explored.