Hybrid approach for generating realistic amorphous carbon structure using metropolis and reverse Monte Carlo

Molecular Simulation

Volumn 28, Issue 10-11, 2002, Pages 927-938

  Opletal, George ^a   Petersen, Tim ^a   O'Malley, Brendan ^a   Snook, Ian ^a   Mcculloch, Dougal G ^a   Marks, Nigel A ^b   Yarovsky, Irene ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbonaceous solids; Environmental potential; Hybrid reverse Monte Carlo; Reverse Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CARBONACEOUS SOLIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL POTENTIAL; HYBRID REVERSE MONTE CARLO; REVERSE MONTE CARLO;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS;

EID: 0041757756     PISSN: 08927022     EISSN: 10290435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/089270204000002584     Document Type: Article

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