Generalized interface

A general interface is not energy-minimized with respect to any of its degrees of freedom, and is far from any singular-interface values of the parameters that set its degrees of freedom. Such an interface cannot reduce its energy by adopting a fit-misfit structure (as in the vicinal case) and therefore cannot support localized dislocations or steps. Two examples serve to clarify these distinctions ... 

The branches, or spikes, in Fig. I are primary in nature. Once they have formed growth at the general interface will be slow because here the supercooling is small and the latent heat of fusion associated with the formation of the spikes lends to further decrease its magnitude. At... 

One can consider a very general interface displacement given in terms of bilateral Laplace transform as,... 

Since the flame-sheet approximation is common to all of the problems considered in Sections 3.1-3.3, it is of interest to study the character of this approximation in greater detail. The significance of the approximation can be addressed from the viewpoint of the general interface conservation condition given in equation (1-58). 

A more general interface geometry is shown in Fig. 3C. Physically this corresponds to an infinite array of M/C thin film couples separated by vacuum. A salient point is that the vacuum layers should be thick enough that adjacent M/C slabs do not interact. Interaction is possible in two ways either via electronic wavefunction overlap in the vacuum or via Coulombic multipoles. The former interaction is usually vanishing, if more than 1 10 A of vacuum is present. The latter interaction is rather long ranged, but fortunately methods have been devised to electrostatically decouple the slabs.Of course, it is required that both the metal and ceramic layers are thick enough that the interface and surfaces do not interact. 

One classical way to examine the interfacial problem is to treat this interfacial energetics in terms of bond breaking. In such a picture, the incorporation of a surface first causes certain liquid phase bonds to be broken. The atoms then readjust from their initial positions to new equilibrium positions via relaxation mechanisms. For a general interface, the interfacial energies may be given by ... 

Any solution for adaptation/parameterization needs clear interfaces When porting a tool, a specific component has to be bound below of a general interface. When parameterizing to a specific context, specific determinations have to be inserted on top of a generic interface. 

The general interface between the EOM-CC and EFP methods [56] allows one to exploit the advantages of various EOM techniques, such as spin-flip (SF) [93-94], ionization potential (IP) [95-96], or electron affinity (EA) [97] variants. For example, the vertical ionization energies (VIE) of thymine in an aqueous environment were investigated using the EOM-IP-CCSD/EFP method [58]. The ionization of nucleic acid bases is relevant to radiation and photoinduced damage of DNA. 

Wang, H.R, E. Borguet, and K.B. Eisenthal (1998). Generalized interface polarity scale based on second harmonic spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. B 102, 4927 932. 

The iQT framework provides a general interface to allow user customize their platform to work with... 

Figure 29. Diffraction by a faulted crystal A) Effect of a translation interface with vector Ro< B) Effect of a di.splacement field C) Schematic of the expressions for transmitted and scattered beam amplitude for a foil containing a general interface parallel to the foil surfaces...

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