Molecular dynamics simulations of beta-SiC using both fixed charge and variable charge models

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 128, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Ma, Ying ^a,b   Garofalini, S H ^c  

^a XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHONONS; SILICON CARBIDE;

ORDERED STRUCTURES; PHONON DISPERSIONS; VARIABLE CHARGE MODELS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 40149111872     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2839862     Document Type: Article

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