Parallel particle simulations of thin-film deposition

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 16-32

  McCoy, R Alan ^a   Deng, Yuefan ^b,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c 293 FOB ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETIC THEORY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; RAY TRACING; SPUTTER DEPOSITION; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

EMBEDDED ATOM METHOD; KINETIC ENERGY TRANSFER; LANGEVIN LOCALIZATION METHOD;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033102264     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109434209901300102     Document Type: Article

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