Atomistic configurations and energetics of crack extension in silicon

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Zhu, Ting ^a   Li, Ju ^b   Yip, Sidney ^c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DATA REDUCTION; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; NUCLEATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

CRACK EXTENSION; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; ENVIRONMENT-DEPENDENT INTERATOMIC POTENTIAL (EDIP); MINIMUM ENERGY PATH (MEP);

SILICON;

EID: 19744371346     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.205504     Document Type: Article

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