Structure of thecluster
- 15 May 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 51 (19) , 13849-13851
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.51.13849
Abstract
Tight-binding molecular dynamic simulations have revealed that Si$_{12}$ is an icosahedron with all atoms on the surface of an approximately 5 \AA~ diameter sphere. This is the most spherical cage structure for silicon clusters in the 2-13 atom size range.Comment: Phys. Rev. B in press (1995); 6 pages + 1 figure; PostScript file is available by anonymous ftp at ftp://ramanujan.chem.nyu.edu/pub/atul4.pKeywords
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