This work presents first-principles measurements of long-range intermolecular dispersion energies between two atoms or molecules as expressed in terms of the C6 dipole-dipole dispersion coefficients. In a series of publications, it has been shown by us that the complex linear polarization propagator method
Lowcoordinated Silicon and Hypercoordinated Carbon: Structure and Stability of Silicon Analogs of Alkenes and Carbon Analogs of Silicates
Quantum chemical studies on lowcoordinated group 14-16 compounds have been performed. This thesis focuses particularly on silenes influenced by reverse Siδ-=Cδ+ bond polarization. Hypercoordinated carbon compounds are usually studied. The geometries from calculations with several common computationally inexpensive..
Growth and Characterization of Ti-Si-N Thin Films
Ti-Si-N and Ti-Al-Si-N thin solid films have been studied by analytical electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, scanning tunneling microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, elastic recoil detection analysis, nanoindentation, and ab initio calculations. I find that arc evaporated (Ti1-xSix)Ny films can be grown as cubic solid solutions up to x = 0.09 with a dense columnar microstructure. Films [...]
The Influence of Dopants on the Growth of Diamond by CVD
Diamond is an important material in many industrial applications (e.g., machining of hard materials, bio-electronics, optics, electronics, etc.) because of its exceptional properties such as hardness, tolerance to aggressive environments, compatibility with human tissues, and high carrier mobility. However, a highly controlled method for growing artificial high-purity diamond on a range of different substrates is [...]