Facet-facet barriers on Cu{111} surfaces for Cu dimers

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-44

  Coronado, Alberto M ^a   Huang, Hanchen ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE INGENIERÍA   (Peru)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation energies; Facet facet barriers; Nudged elastic band method

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; DIFFUSION; DIMERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

FACET-FACET BARRIERS; NUDGED ELASTIC BAND METHOD;

COPPER;

EID: 29844454424     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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