Electronic Structure of Stacking Faults in Transition Metals: Nickel

Abstract
We report the results of a calculation which point out the existence of localized electronic states in the vicinity of stacking faults in a face-centered-cubic transition metal (nickel). The results are fairly insensitive to the parameters of the calculation. The reported states appear between the two d sub-bands of the bulk states, are well received, are fairly well localized, and could be observable by electron emission spectroscopy.