Absmct.A previous shell-model-style calculation for the ground-state energy of the 'He nucleus, based on coupled cluster techniques, was able to treat exactly the centre-of-mass motion. It is now recast in a precisely equivalent but vastly more computationally efiaent form, directly in terms of coordinate-space correlation functions which are expanded in a Gaussian geminal basis and determined variationally. This reformulation further leads in a straightforward manner to a natural procedure for including higher-order correlations. Its implementation at even the simplest level produces a significant improvement in the already very good upper bounds achieved far the ground-state energy. Further extensions are also discussed.

We have examined the impact of a simple, wet chemical postgrowth treatment of “immersing in KCN solution” on the performance of inverted staggered amorphous silicon n-channel thin film transistors. Results show that the cyanide treatment significantly improves the overall transistor performance by the elimination of defect states.