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Numerical Studies Of The Dynamics Of Silicon: Relaxation, Nucleation And Energy Landscape

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Normand Mousseau ,
Philippe Beaucage  and
Francis Valiquette
Normand Mousseau
Affiliation:
Département de physique and Groupe de recherche en science et technologie des couches minces, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128 succ. Centre-ville, Montréal (Québec), Canada, H3T 1J7
Philippe Beaucage
Affiliation:
Département de physique and Groupe de recherche en science et technologie des couches minces, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128 succ. Centre-ville, Montréal (Québec), Canada, H3T 1J7
Francis Valiquette
Affiliation:
Département de physique and Groupe de recherche en science et technologie des couches minces, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128 succ. Centre-ville, Montréal (Québec), Canada, H3T 1J7
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Abstract

Using various simulation techniques, such as molecular dynamics and the activation-relaxation technique, we are slowly developing a consistent picture of the dynamical properties of amorphous silicon. For example, results of an extensive search for the activated events surrounding a single minimum, in a well-relaxed model represented by a modified Stillinger-Weber potential, confirm that barrier height at the transition point, for activated mechanisms, is determined essentially by the binding energy of a single bond and not the details of the mechanism. We will discuss these results in some detail as well as recent simulations of nucleation in liquid and amorphous silicon.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 762: Symposium A – Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Silicon-Based Films – 2003 , 2003 , A11.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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