The structure of the SiO2/Si(100) interface from a restraint-free search using computer simulations

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Fischer, Dominik ^a   Curioni, Alessandro ^a   Billeter, Salomon ^a   Andreoni, Wanda ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OXIDATION; SILICON COMPOUNDS; STABILITY; STOICHIOMETRY;

INTERATOMIC POTENTIALS; PSEUDO-CRISTOBALITE PATTERN; SI-O-SI BRIDGE BONDS; SIO2 AND SI(100);

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 33645520309     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2158520     Document Type: Article

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