Dynamical brittle fractures of nanocrystalline silicon using large-scale electronic structure calculations

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2429-2432

  Hoshi, Takeo ^a   Fujiwara, Takeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brittle fracture; Hybrid scheme between order N electronic structure calculations; Molecular dynamics; Nanocrystalline silicon; Step structure; Surface reconstruction process

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CRYSTAL; FRACTURE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0242710633     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.72.2429     Document Type: Article

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