The focus of this thesis is on determination of putative global minimum structures of silver clusters, and copper-silver and nickel-silver bimetallic clusters by using a combination of embedded atom method and basin-hopping algorithm. Global minima of silver clusters with N=2 to 100 atoms are based on icosahedra, polyicosahedra, fcc-truncated octahedra, and decahedra. The set of magic sizes and structural motifs of Ag clusters suggest an icosahedral growth pattern based on a combination of MIC/Mackay and TIC/Polyicosahedral growth. For Cu_mAg_n and Ni_mAg_n clusters, with N = m+n from 2 to 60, global minima are mainly icosahedron and polyicosahedron structures, with exception for some clusters of size N = 38 which are truncated octahedrons....
A detailed study is made of the structures and relative stabilities of nickel and aluminium cluste...
Die grundlegende Motivation der Dissertation bildet die Suche und die Erforschung und Herstellung vo...
My research is focused on the search for low-lying structures of atomic and molecular clusters and o...
In the past years significant interest in clusters has been developed due to their fundamental impor...
The fo us of this thesis is on determination of putative global minimum stru tures of silver lusters...
A genetic algorithm approach is applied to the optimization of the potential energy of a wide range ...
The computational prediction of thermodynamically stable metal cluster structures has developed into...
Two new efficient methods for finding stable atomic clusters are introduced in this work. A purely a...
An alternative strategy to find the minimal energy structure of nanoclusters is presented and implem...
The energy landscapes of sub-nanometre bimetallic coinage metal clusters are explored with the Thres...
We determine the lowest energy structures of small (10-20 atoms) copper clusters. The semi-empirical...
Ag and Co metals do not form macroscopic solid or liquid alloys. However, AgmCon clusters have been ...
The energy landscapes of sub-nanometre bimetallic coinage metal clusters are explored with the Thres...
This work is based on the calculation of total-energy minimum structures for various cluster systems...
In this work, we have studied the growth of several cluster systems including metallic and semicondu...
A detailed study is made of the structures and relative stabilities of nickel and aluminium cluste...
Die grundlegende Motivation der Dissertation bildet die Suche und die Erforschung und Herstellung vo...
My research is focused on the search for low-lying structures of atomic and molecular clusters and o...
In the past years significant interest in clusters has been developed due to their fundamental impor...
The fo us of this thesis is on determination of putative global minimum stru tures of silver lusters...
A genetic algorithm approach is applied to the optimization of the potential energy of a wide range ...
The computational prediction of thermodynamically stable metal cluster structures has developed into...
Two new efficient methods for finding stable atomic clusters are introduced in this work. A purely a...
An alternative strategy to find the minimal energy structure of nanoclusters is presented and implem...
The energy landscapes of sub-nanometre bimetallic coinage metal clusters are explored with the Thres...
We determine the lowest energy structures of small (10-20 atoms) copper clusters. The semi-empirical...
Ag and Co metals do not form macroscopic solid or liquid alloys. However, AgmCon clusters have been ...
The energy landscapes of sub-nanometre bimetallic coinage metal clusters are explored with the Thres...
This work is based on the calculation of total-energy minimum structures for various cluster systems...
In this work, we have studied the growth of several cluster systems including metallic and semicondu...
A detailed study is made of the structures and relative stabilities of nickel and aluminium cluste...
Die grundlegende Motivation der Dissertation bildet die Suche und die Erforschung und Herstellung vo...
My research is focused on the search for low-lying structures of atomic and molecular clusters and o...