Atomic-level simulations of nanoindentation-induced phase transformation in mono-crystalline silicon

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Empirical Interatomic Potential for Carbon, with Applications to Amorphous Carbon

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Empirical interatomic potential for silicon with improved elastic properties

J. Tersoff · Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1988 · 1.5K citations

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New empirical model for the structural properties of silicon

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