1. Comment on 'The Local Structure of Amorphous Silicon'
- Author
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Laurent J. Lewis and Sjoerd Roorda
- Subjects
Amorphous silicon ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Multidisciplinary ,Optics ,Electron diffraction ,Condensed matter physics ,Chemistry ,business.industry ,Reverse Monte Carlo ,Paracrystalline ,business ,Fluctuation electron microscopy ,Local structure - Abstract
Treacy and Borisenko (Reports, 24 February 2012, p. 950) argue from reverse Monte Carlo modeling of electron diffraction and fluctuation electron microscopy data that amorphous silicon is paracrystalline and not described by a continuous random network. However, their models disagree with high-resolution x-ray measurements and other evidence, whereas the agreement with fluctuation electron microscopy is at best qualitative.
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- 2012