MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF GALLIUM MICROCLUSTERS

1989-03-01
We have investigated the energetics and the structural stability of gallium microclusters including 3–7 atoms. A molecular-dynamics technique is employed in the simulation. The potential energy function used in the calculations includes two- and three-body interactions which are represented by Lennard-Jones and Axilrod-Teller type functions, respectively. It was found that the planar configurations are energetically more favorable for all the clusters studied.
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Citation Formats
Ş. Katırcıoğlu, “MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF GALLIUM MICROCLUSTERS,” JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH, pp. 807–809, 1989, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42265.