P Blaudeck et al 1992 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 4 6389 doi:10.1088/0953-8984/4/30/006
P Blaudeck, Th Frauenheim, D Porezag, G Seifert and E Fromm
Show affiliationsA method for realistic molecular dynamic (MD) simulations of the chemical bonding formation in extended hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H) structures of varying density and incorporated hydrogen content is presented. Applying the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, the forces moving the atoms via MD on the potential energy surface are calculated within an approximated MD-density functional theory which uses localized basis functions. The method is shown to describe correctly the ground state configurations of Cn microclusters, CnHm hydrocarbon molecules and radicals, as well as bulk crystalline carbon. Application to dynamical structure simulation of a-C and a-C:H results in realistic metastable configurations which are characterized electronically by a well defined gap in the electronic density of states around the Fermi energy. A reasonable structure statistics is obtained and compared with fully ab initio calculations and experiments.
61.43.Bn Structural modeling: serial-addition models, computer simulation
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