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 Microscopic Structure of Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon

Nigel Marks, David McKenzie and Bernard Pailthorpe


Snapshot of the 64 atom ta-C network. The heavy lines show the network of bonds; the 22 dark spheres depict threefold coordinated atoms (sp2 hybridized) and the 42 light spheres show the fourfold coordinated atoms (sp3 hybridized). Phys. Rev. Letters

The simulations were performed by N. Marks, (Dept of Applied Physics, University of Sydney) at the Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart.

Publications

N.A. Marks, D.R. McKenzie, B.A. Pailthorpe, M. Bernasconi, and M. Parrinello "Ab initio simulations of tetrahedral amorphous carbon" Phys. Rev. B 54, 9703-9714 (1996).

N.A. Marks, D.R. McKenzie, B.A. Pailthorpe, M. Bernasconi, and M. Parrinello  "Microscopic structure of tetrahedral amorphous carbon" Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 768-771 (1996).

N.A. Marks, D.R. McKenzie, and B.A. Pailthorpe "Molecular dynamics study of compressive stress generation" Phys. Rev. B 53, 4117-4124 (1996).

D.R. McKenzie, N.A. Marks, P. Guan, B.A. Pailthorpe, W.D. McFall, and Y. Yin " Energetic condensation as a means of inducing the growth of films containing high pressure phases" Surf. Sci. 250-62, 381 (1996).