Thermodynamics of C incorporation on Si(100) from ab initio calculations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 4556-4559

  Remediakis, I N ^a,b   Kaxiras, Efthimios ^a,c   Kelires, P C ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; DIMERS; HAMILTONIANS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; STRAIN RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; STRAIN EFFECTS;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0035858417     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4556     Document Type: Article

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