Stability of polycrystalline and wurtzite Si nanowires via symmetry-adapted tight-binding objective molecular dynamics

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 128, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Zhang, D B ^a   Hua, M ^a   Dumitric T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND STATE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SILICON; STABILIZATION;

ACHIRAL POLYCRYSTALLINE; CLASSICAL POTENTIAL MODELS; TIGHT-BINDING TREATMENT;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 40149107022     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2837826     Document Type: Article

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