Influence of synthesis conditions on the structural and optical properties of passivated silicon nanoclusters

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 16, 2003, Pages

  Draeger, Erik W ^a   Grossman, Jeffrey C ^a   Williamson, Andrew J ^a   Galli, Giulia ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ATOMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

DANGLING BONDS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PASSIVATED SILICON NANOCLUSTER; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUE; SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0038201991     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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