Adopting the empirical silicon interatomic potential of Stillinger and Weber, we investigate the effect of the tip profile on the atomic-force microscope images for a prototype system, Si(001)-(2×1), and conclude that the ...

Results of a molecular-dynamics computer simulation are presented for atomic relaxations and relaxation energies for self-interstitials in a silicon crystal. The Stillinger-Weber model potential containing two- and three-body ...