Mining the bulk positron lifetime

Abstract

We introduce a new approach to investigate the bulk positron lifetimes of new systems based on data‐mining techniques. Through data mining of bulk positron lifetimes, we demonstrate the ability to predict the positron lifetimes of new semiconductors on the basis of available semiconductor data already studied. Informatics techniques have been applied to bulk positron lifetimes for different tetrahedrally bounded semiconductors in order to discover computational design rules. (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)