abstract: The continuous random network (CRN) model of network glasses is widely accepted as a model for materials such as vitreous silica and amorphous silicon. Although it
has been more than eighty years since the proposal of the CRN, there has not been conclusive experimental evidence of the structure of glasses and amorphous
materials. This has now changed with the advent of two-dimensional amorphous materials. Now, not only the distribution of rings but the actual atomic ring
structure can be imaged in real space, allowing for greater charicterization of these types of networks. This dissertation reports the first work done
on the modelling of amorphous graphene and vitreous silica bilayers. Models of amorphous graphene have been created using a Monte Carlo bond-switching method
and MD method. Vitreous silica bilayers have been constructed using models of amorphous graphene and the ring statistics of silica bilayers has been studied. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Physics 2014
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:26899 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Contributors | Kumar, Avishek (Author), Thorpe, Michael F (Advisor), Ozkan, Sefika B (Committee member), Beckstein, Oliver (Committee member), Treacy, Michael MJ (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Dissertation |
| Format | 128 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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