Below is a list of animations I have made over the years to illustrate simulation results on collision cascades I have gotten in the work. In most of them, every sphere or dot denotes the position of an atom at a given instant of time.
Most of the animations are gif or Microsoft RLE AVI animations so your browser should be able to display them by default. If not, you need to install an appropriate plugin or download the files and play them on your computer. Windows Mediaplayer should be able to hanble all of these - for Linux mplayer is a good choice.
As a rule of thumb, the higher up the animation is in the list, the better it is in technical quality
| Animation | Background/explanation |
| 3 keV He -> nc-CuAu | [MPEG] 3 keV He hitting a CuAu multiply twinned icosahedral nanocrystal [Järvi et al, EPL 85 (2009) 26001] |
| 2 MeV/cluster Au100 -> Au | [AVI] 2 MeV/cluster Au100 -> Au cluster impact [Nordlund et al, Appl. Phys. A 91 (2008) 561] |
| 100 eV C60 -> NT | [AVI] 100 eV fullerene impact on nanotubes lying on Pt substrate |
| 500 eV Au -> Cu | [AVI] 500 eV Au impact on Cu (made for demonstration only, can you spot the minor cheat used only for plotting?) |
| 30 keV Xe -> Au | [AVI] 30 keV Xe impact on Au (7 degrees off the 100 direction i.e. partly channeled) |
| 5 keV Si -> Si | [WMV] 5 keV Si recoil in Si |
| 20 keV Fe -> FeCr | [AVI] 20 keV self-recoil in Fe_90Cu_10 |
| 10 keV Au -> Cu3Au | Disordering by a 10 keV Au -> Cu3Au cascade |
| 20 eV H -> a-C:H | [AVI] Swift chemical sputtering of a-C:H |
| 10 keV Si self-recoil | [AVI] 10 keV Si self-recoil |
| 10 keV GaAs self-recoil | [AVI] 10 keV GaAs self-recoil |
| 50 keV Xe -> Au 100 surface | [AVI] Crater production and damage formation by 50 keV Xe -> Au |
| 50 keV Xe -> Au 100 surface | [AVI] Crater production and damage formation by 50 keV Xe -> Au: liquid only |
| 100 keV Xe -> Au 100 surface | [AVI] Crater production and damage formation by 100 keV Xe -> Au |
| 100 keV Xe -> Au 100 surface | [GIF anim] Crater production and damage formation by 100 keV Xe -> Au |
| 10 keV Co -> Co | 10 keV Co -> Co surface cascade, made just for demonstration |
| 20 keV Au -> Au | Mai Ghaly's 20 keV Au -> Au animation |
| Graphite D3 defect formation: MPEG | AVI | Effects of low-energy self-ion impacts on graphite, see [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 (1996) 699.] |
| 10 keV Al -> Al (bulk, 2D) | Click here |
| 10 keV Al -> Al (bulk, 3D) | Click here |
| 10 keV Au -> Au (bulk, 2D) | Click here |
| 10 keV Au -> Au (bulk, 3D) | Click here |
| 10 keV Cu -> Cu (bulk, 2D) | Click here |
| 10 keV Cu -> Cu (bulk, 3D) | Click here |
| 10 keV Ge -> Ge (bulk, 2D) | Click here |
| 10 keV Ge -> Ge (bulk, 3D) | Click here |
| 10 keV Si -> Si (bulk, 2D) | Click here |
| 10 keV Si -> Si (bulk, 3D) | Click here |
| 50 keV Ni -> Ni (bulk, 3D) | Click here |
| 200 keV Pt -> Pt (bulk, 2D) | Click here |
| 200 keV Pt -> Pt (bulk, 3D) | Click here |
| 200 keV Pt -> Pt #2 (bulk, 2D) | Click here |
| 200 keV Pt -> Pt #2 (bulk, 3D) | Click here |
| 50 keV Cu -> Cu3Au (3D) | None available |
| 1 keV Si -> Si, really old, MPEG | Click here |
| 1 keV Si -> Si, really old, MPEG | Click here |
Technical note for the nerds out there: Many of the animations have been made with a slightly modified version of Rasmol, a really nice public domain atom and molecule visualization software. A few other have been made with dpc, a piece of own software for making animations from MD simulations really quickly.
