U.S. - Greece Cooperative Research: Transition Metal Silicides

9812305Menon这项为期三年的奖项支持美国和希腊在过渡金属硅化物领域的合作研究，合作伙伴是肯塔基大学的Madhu Menon和位于克里特岛伊拉克利安的希腊研究与技术基金会(Fourth)的Antonis Andriotis。他们的研究目标是研究基于过渡金属及其硅化物的器件的结构和稳定性，以期制造肖特基势垒器件；并研究基于Ge的笼状结构。该项目将建立计算材料科学国际合作的试点项目。美国研究人员为这一合作带来了计算半导体团簇和固体动态性质的新计算技术的优势。希腊在理解过渡金属体系行为方面的经验补充了这一点。

9812305MenonThis three-year award supports US-Greek collaborative research in the area of transition metal silicides between Madhu Menon of the University of Kentucky and Antonis Andriotis of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete. The objectives of their research are to study structure and stabilities of devices based on transition metals and their silicides with a view to fabricating Schottky barrier devices; and to study Ge based clathrates. This project will establish a pilot program for international cooperation in computational materials sciences. The US investigators bring to this collaboration strengths in new computational techniques for calculating dynamic properties of semiconductor clusters and solids. This is complemented by the Greek experience in the understanding of the behavior of transition metals systems.