Structure and interconversion of oxygen-vacancy-related defects on amorphous silica

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Kuo, Chin Lung ^a   Hwang, Gyeong S ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DEFECTS; DIMERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TENSILE STRESS;

OXYGEN-VACANCY-RELATED DEFECTS; SI-SI DIMER CONFIGURATION; SILANONE; STRUCTURAL STABILITY;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 33747049548     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.066101     Document Type: Article

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