Understanding defects in DSA: Calculation of free energies of block copolymer DSA systems via thermodynamic integration of a mesoscale block-copolymer model

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9049, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Peters, Andrew J ^a   Lawson, Richard A ^a   Nation, Benjamin D ^a   Ludovice, Peter J ^a   Henderson, Clifford L ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse Grained; Defects; Directed Self Assembly; Free Energy; GPU; Molecular Dynamics; Simulation; Thermodynamic Integration

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREE ENERGY; INTEGRATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SELF ASSEMBLY; THERMODYNAMICS;

COARSE-GRAINED; DIRECTED SELF-ASSEMBLY; GPU; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMIC INTEGRATION;

DEFECTS;

EID: 84902108628     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2046664     Document Type: Conference Paper

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