@inproceedings{a660c1bfe31d4e8f81d26c213cadd032,
title = "The prediction of the mechanical stiffness of the silicon based crystalline/amorphous nano-structures using molecular dynamic (MD) simulation",
abstract = "The mechanical stiffness of the silica nano-structures, including the crystalline silicon and amorphous silica, is studied using the molecular dynamics (MD) method. The MD simulation procedure is based on the linear-elastic theory, and the stiffness parameter can be acquired by the reaction forces of the sample. Moreover, we also propose a molecular structure generation algorithm for the amorphous silica, which is a low-dielectric material (SiOC:H). In the simulation of crystalline silicon, the results show good approach to the experimental results and the size effect of the nano-structures was captured. Moreover, the simulation of amorphous silica, the trends which are indicated by the simulation results exhibit good agreements with the ones by the experiment. Keywords: molecular dynamics, atomistic modeling, mechanical stiffness, amorphous material.",
keywords = "conference contrib. refereed, Conf.proc. > 3 pag",
author = "CA Yuan and {van der Sluis}, O and GQ Zhang and LJ Ernst and {van Driel}, WD and {van Silfhout}, RBR",
year = "2007",
language = "Undefined/Unknown",
isbn = "1-4200-6349-9",
publisher = "NanoTech",
pages = "1--4",
editor = "M Laudon",
booktitle = "NanoTech 2007",
note = "NanoTech 2007 ; Conference date: 20-05-2007 Through 24-05-2007",
}