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   COLLOQUIUM OF THE LABORATORY FOR COMPUTER DESIGN OF MATERIALS
                   School of Computational Sciences
                           (CSI 898-Sec 001)
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    Density functional study of interactions of particles on surfaces

                          Guan Ming Wang
         Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375
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     Center for Nanomaterials Research and Department of Chemistry, 
                  Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 

Nano-size particles placed on solid surfaces have been studied with 
techniques such as scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The
interactions between particles, surfaces, and the scanning tip 
are not well understood. Yet, the 3-entity system is important to 
interpret the STM images correctly. I will report the density
functional investigation on a few selected small particles on surfaces using
an efficient ab initio tight-binding approach, which is called PLATO.
Particles include adatoms, dimers, etc on solid surfaces such as graphite and
carbon nanotubes. 
                        
                      Monday , February 14, 2005
                                  4:30 pm
               Room 206, Science & Tech. I, Fairfax Campus

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 PM.
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