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A Study of the Structural Properties of Porous Silicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

A A Cafolla
Affiliation:
Dept of Physics, UWCC, Cardiff CF1 3TH, UK.
T-H Shen
Affiliation:
Dept of Physics, UWCC, Cardiff CF1 3TH, UK.
C C Matthai
Affiliation:
Dept of Physics, UWCC, Cardiff CF1 3TH, UK.
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Abstract

We have implemented a modified diffusion limited aggregation model to simulate the porous silicon structure obtained by electro-chemical dissolution. The fractal structures thus obtained have been used as starting configurations from which a fully equilibrated structure was determined by the method of molecular dynamics.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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