STRUCTURAL-PROPERTIES OF SILICON CLUSTERS - AN EMPIRICAL POTENTIAL STUDY

By using our newly proposed empirical interatomic potential for silico n, the structure and some dynamical properties of the silicon cluster Si(n) (10 less-than-or-equal-to n less-than-or-equal-to 24) have been studied. It is found that the results obtained are close to those from ab initio methods. From the present results, we can gain a new insigh t into understanding the experimental data on the Si(n) clusters.