Molecular-dynamics simulations of sputtering

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1814, 2004, Pages 157-176

  Smith, Roger ^a   Kenny, Steven D ^a   Ramasawmy, Deerajen ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collision cascades; Computer simulation; Ionic potentials; Molecular dynamics; Sputtering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346040483     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1308     Document Type: Article

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