Research
Mechanics and
physics of nanowire structures
- Structure determination through global optimization
- Mechanical response in relation to structure
- Effect of impurities on the stability of nanowires
- Growth on wire-like substrates
Self-organized nanostructures on crystal surfaces
- Strain-driven self-assembly of semiconductor quantum dots
- Simulation of step interactions and step bunching
- Interactions and self-assembly of defects, ad-atoms and ad-dimers on surfaces
Theory and computational modeling of crystal surface phenomena
- Total energy methods and multiscale approaches to the simulation of mechanical and electrical properties of surfaces, interfaces and clusters
- Continuum models of surface evolution during growth and evaporation
- Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations of growth
Development of methodologies for
global structural optimization of 1-and 2-D nanostructures
- Genetic algorithms
- Replica-exchange Monte Carlo, simulated annealing
- Parrinello-Rahman-type formalisms