What is the ground-state structure of the thinnest Si nanowires?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 035501/1-035501/4

  Zhao, Yufeng ^a   Yakobson, Boris I ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND STATE; KINETIC THEORY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEPARATION; SILICON; SURFACES;

ENERGY COMPUTATION; GROUND STATE STRUCTURE; NANOWIRES; PRISTINE SILICON WHISKERS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0042386543     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.035501     Document Type: Article

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