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Interatomic Potentials in Silicon
Author(s) -
Mazzone A. M.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.2221650209
Subject(s) - interatomic potential , silicon , molecular dynamics , covalent bond , materials science , chemical physics , molecular physics , computational chemistry , chemistry , optoelectronics , organic chemistry
A study is made, based on molecular dynamics simulations, of the properties of interatomic potentials currently used to describe solid structures with covalent bonding. From these studies it appears that none of the available forms of potentials leads to a satisfactory description of bulk silicon.