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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 68, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.104303
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The vibrational density of states (VDOS) of nanoclusters and nanocrystalline materials is derived from molecular-dynamics simulations using empirical tight-binding potentials. The results show that the VDOS inside nanoclusters can be understood as that of the corresponding bulk system compressed by the capillary pressure. At the surface of the nanoparticles the VDOS exhibits a strong enhancement at low energies and shows structures similar to that found near flat crystalline surfaces. For the nanocrystalline materials an increased VDOS is found at high and low phonon energies, in agreement with experimental findings. The individual VDOS contributions from the grain centers, grain boundaries, and internal surfaces show that, in the nanocrystalline materials, the VDOS enhancements are mainly caused by the grain-boundary contributions and that surface atoms play only a minor role. Although capillary pressures are also present inside the grains of nanocrystalline materials, their effect on the VDOS is different than in the cluster case which is probably due to the intergrain coupling of the modes via the grain boundaries.
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