Theoretical study of atomic structure and elastic properties of branched silicon nanowires

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2784-2790

  Sorokin, Pavel B ^a,b,d   Kvashnin, Alexander G ^a   Kvashnin, Dmitry G ^a   Filicheva, Julia A ^a   Avramov, Pavel V ^a,c   Fedorov, Alexander S ^c   Chernozatonskii, Leonid A ^b  

^a SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b EMANUEL INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c KIRENSKY INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastic properties; Molecular mechanics; Silicon nanowires; Tersoff potential

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NANOWIRES; SILICON; STIFFNESS; YARN;

BRANCH LENGTH; BRANCHED NANOWIRES; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; INTERATOMIC POTENTIAL; SILICON NANOWIRES; TERSOFF POTENTIAL; THEORETICAL STUDY; YOUNG MODULUS;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE;

NANOWIRE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELASTICITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOWIRES; SILICON; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 77952942485     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9018027     Document Type: Article

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