Hi Marcel, Use the Web of Science, if you have access to it. Or, Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com). Since reading a paper and looking at its references, the references' references and so on (recursively) is like looking at an iceberg, here goes one tip. It's classical, stillinger-weber potential MD, but it could contain references to DFT calculations (haven't checked it, though).
Cheers, Marcos ========================================================================== Title: Thermal conductivity in thin silicon nanowires: Phonon confinement effect Author(s): Ponomareva I (Ponomareva, Inna), Srivastava D (Srivastava, Deepak), Menon M (Menon, Madhu) Source: NANO LETTERS 7 (5): 1155-1159 MAY 2007 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 15 Times Cited: 0 Find Related Records Information Abstract: Thermal conductivity of thin silicon nanowires (1.4-8.3 nm) including the realistic crystalline structures and surface reconstruction effects is investigated using direct molecular dynamics simulations with Stillinger-Weber potential for Si-Si interactions. Thermal conductivity as a function of decreasing nanowire diameter shows an expected decrease due to increased surface scattering effects. However, at very small diameter (< 1.5 nm), an increase in the thermal conductivity is observed, which is explained by the phonon confinement effect. > Dear list-members, > > I checked the publications list to find papers that use SIESTA for the > calculation of vibrational properties of nanowires, but could not find > any. (Only > nanotubes). > Does anybody know work on this topic? > > Cheers > Marcel Mohr > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Marcel Mohr Institut für Festkörperphysik, TU Berlin > marcel(at)physik.tu-berlin.de Sekr. PN 5-4 > TEL: +49-30-314 24442 Hardenbergstr. 36 > FAX: +49-30-314 27705 10623 Berlin > > -- Dr. Marcos Verissimo Alves Post-Doctoral Fellow Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Sector International Centre for Theoretical Physics Trieste, Italy -------- I have become so addicted to vi that I try to exit OpenOffice by typing :wq!
