Metastable Frenkel Pair Defect in Graphite: Source of Wigner Energy?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Ewels, C P ^a   Telling, R H ^a   El Barbary, A A ^a   Heggie, M I ^a   Briddon, P R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; FULLERENES; GRAPHITE; IRRADIATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ENERGY RELEASE; FRENKEL PAIR DEFECT; STONE-WALES DEFECT; WIGNER ENERGY;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 17944397487     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.025505     Document Type: Article

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