CdTe surfaces: Characterizing dynamical processes with first-principles metadynamics

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Pietrucci, Fabio ^a   Gerra, Guido ^a   Andreoni, Wanda ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; CDTE; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; METADYNAMICS;

CADMIUM ALLOYS; DESORPTION; ENERGY BARRIERS; FREE ENERGY; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77958026340     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3499430     Document Type: Article

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