Characterizing the nature of virtual amorphous silicon

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 17, 2005, Pages

  Choudhary, Devashish ^a   Clancy, Paulette ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND LENGTH; CONTINUOUS RANDOM NETWORK (CRN); GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATION (GGA); RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (RDF);

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUENCHING; RAMAN SCATTERING; THERMODYNAMICS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; METHODOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHASE TRANSITION; SILICON; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 39049181259     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1888566     Document Type: Article

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