Wei Cai

Journal Publications [back to home page]

  1. Hark B. Lee, Friedrich B. Prinz, and Wei Cai, "Atomistic Simulations of Dopant Segregation at the Grain Boundaries of YSZ and GDC", in preparation, (2009).

  2. Jie Yin, David M. Barnett, and Wei Cai, "Computing Forces on Dislocation Segments in Anisotropic Elasticity", in preparation for Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, (2009).

  3. Keonwook Kang, Vasily V. Bulatov and Wei Cai, "Orientation dependence of dislocation core energy and Peierls stress in a BCC metal", in preparation, (2009).

  4. Christopher R. Weinberger and Wei Cai, "Plasticity of metal wires in torsion: molecular dynamics and dislocation dynamics simulations", in preparation for Acta Materialia, (2009).

  5. William Cash and Wei Cai, "Dislocation Mechanisms of the Ultrasonic Nonlinearity in Crystalline Solids", submitted to Physical Review B, (2009).

  6. Hark B. Lee, Friedrich B. Prinz, and Wei Cai, "Atomistic Simulations of Surface Segregation of Defects in Solid Oxide Electrolytes", submitted to Acta Materialia (2009).

  7. Christopher R. Weinberger and Wei Cai, "Orientation dependent plasticity in metal nanowires under torsion: twist boundary formation and Eshelby twist", submitted to Nano Letters (2009).

  8. H. Kesari, A. Lew and Wei Cai, "Depth-Dependent Hysteresis in Adhesive Elastic Contacts", submitted to Physical Review Letters (2009).

  9. K. Kang, Wei Cai, "Size and Temperature Effects on Brittle and Ductile Fracture of Silicon Nanowires", submitted to International Journal of Plasticity (2009).

  10. Seunghwa Ryu and Wei Cai, "A Gold-Silicon Potential Fitted to the Binary Phase Diagram", submitted to Journal of Physics Condensed Matter (2009).

  11. Eunseok Lee, Friedrich B. Prinz and Wei Cai, "Computing Electrochemical Impedance of Solid Electrolyte from Fluctuations", submitted to Electrochemistry Communications (2009).

  12. Seunghwa Ryu, Christopher R. Weinberger, Michael I. Baskes, and Wei Cai, "Improved Modified Embedded-Atom Method Potentials for Gold and Silicon", Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 17, 075008 (2009). [PDF]

  13. C. R. Weinberger, S. Aubry, S.-W. Lee, W. D. Nix and Wei Cai, "Modelling Dislocations in a Free-Standing Thin Film", Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 17, 075007 (2009). [PDF]

  14. H. S. Park, Wei Cai, H. D. Espinosa and H. Huang "Mechanics of Crystalline Nanowires", invited review paper, MRS Bulletin, 34, 178 (March, 2009). [isi] (cited 3)

  15. Wei Cai and Christopher R. Weinberger, "Energy of a Prismatic Dislocation Loop in an Elastic Cylinder", Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 14, 192 (2009). [PDF] [isi] (cited 0)

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  16. Seunghwa Ryu and Wei Cai, "Comparison of Thermal Properties Predicted by Interatomic Potential Models", Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 16, 085005 (2008). [PDF] Paper selected as  MSMSE featured article. [download codes] [isi] (cited 0)

  17. Christopher R. Weinberger and Wei Cai, "Surface Controlled Dislocation Multiplication in Metal Micro-pillars", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 14304 (2008). [PDF] [cited by] (cited 1)

  18. Wei Cai, William Fong, Erich Elsen and Christopher R. Weinberger, "Torsion and Bending Periodic Boundary Conditions for Modelling the Intrinsic Strength of Nanowires", Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 56, 3242, (2008). [PDF] [isi] (cited 0)

  19. Seunghwa Ryu, Wei Cai and Alfredo Caro, "Quantum Entanglement of Formation between Qudits", Phys. Rev. A, 77, 052312 (2008). [PDF] Paper selected for the May 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Quantum Information. [isi] (cited 1)

  20. J. R. Greer, C. R. Weinberger and Wei Cai, "Comparing the strength of f.c.c. and b.c.c. sub-micrometer pillars: Compression experiments and dislocation dynamics simulations", Materials Science and Engineering A, 493, 21 (2008). [PDF] [isi] (cited 7)

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  21. K. Kang, Wei Cai, "Brittle and Ductile Fracture of Semiconductor Nanowires – Molecular Dynamics Simulations", Philosophical Magazine, 87, 2169, (2007). [PDF] [isi] (cited 8)

  22. E. Lee, Wei Cai, G. Galli, "Electronic Structure Calculations in a Uniform Magnetic Field using Periodic Supercells", Journal of Computational Physics, 226, 1310 (2007). [PDF] [isi] (cited 1)

  23. C. R. Weinberger and Wei Cai, "Computing Image Stress in an Elastic Cylinder", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 55, 2027 (2007) [PDF] [isi] (cited 6)

  24. A. Arsenlis, Wei Cai, V. V. Bulatov, M. Rhee, M. Tang, T. Oppelstrup, M. Hiratani, G. Hommes, T. G. Pierce, "Enabling Strain Hardening Simulations with Dislocation Dynamics", Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 15, 553 (2007). [PDF] Paper selected in  2007 Highlights for MSMSE. [isi] (cited 11)

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  25. V. V. Bulatov, et al. , "Dislocation multi-junctions and strain hardening", Nature, 440, 1174 (2006). [PDF] [isi] (cited 21)

  26. Wei Cai, Athanasios Arsenlis, Christopher R. Weinberger, Vasily V. Bulatov, "A non-singular continuum theory of dislocations", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 54, 561 (2006). [PDF] Paper discussed in Online Textbook of Solid Mechanics (A. F. Bower). [isi] (cited 11)

  27. M. Tang, Wei Cai, G. Xu, V. V. Bulatov, "A hybrid method for computing forces on curved dislocations intersecting free surfaces in three-dimensional dislocation dynamics", Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 14, 1139 (2006). [PDF] [isi] (cited 6)

  28. V. V. Bulatov, Wei Cai, R. Baran, K. Kang, "Geometric aspects of the ideal shear resistance in simple crystal lattices", Philosophical Magazine, 86, 3847 (2006). [PDF] [isi] (cited 0)

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  29. C. S. Deo, D. J. Srolovitz, Wei Cai, V. V. Bulatov, "Stochastic simulation of dislocation glide in tantalum and Ta-based alloys", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 53, 1223 (2005). [PDF] [isi] (cited 1)

  30. C. S. Deo, D. J. Srolovitz, Wei Cai, V. V. Bulatov, "Kinetic Monte Carlo method for dislocation migration in the presence of solute", Physical Review B, 71, 014106 (2005). [PDF] [isi] (cited 1)

  31. M. de Koning, Wei Cai, B. Sadigh, M. Kalos, V. V. Bulatov, "Adaptive Importance Sampling Monte Carlo Simulation of Rare Transition Events", Journal of Chemical Physics, 122, 074103 (2005). [PDF] [isi] (cited 3)

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  32. Ju Li, Cai-Zhuang Wang, Jin-Peng Chang, Wei Cai, Vasily V. Bulatov, Kai-Ming Ho, Sidney Yip, "Core energy and Peierls stress of a screw dislocation in bcc molybdenum: A periodic-cell tight-binding study", Phys. Rev. B, 70 104113 (2004). [PDF] [oppie] [isi] (cited 19)

  33. Wei Cai and Giulia Galli, "Ab initio calculations in a uniform magnetic field using periodic supercells", Physical Review Letters, 92, 186402 (2004). [PDF] [isi] (cited 8)

  34. Jaime Marian, Wei Cai and Vasily V. Bulatov, "Dynamic transitions from smooth to rough to twinning in dislocation motion", Nature Materials, 3, 158 (2004). [PDF] [isi] (cited 44)

  35. Wei Cai and Vasily V. Bulatov, "Mobility laws in dislocation dynamics simulations", Materials Science and Engineering A, 387, 277 (2004). [PDF] [isi] (cited 9)

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  36. Maurice de Koning, Wei Cai and Vasily V. Bulatov, "Anomalous Dislocation Multiplication in FCC Metals", Physical Review Letters, 91, 022503 (2003). [PDF] [isi] (cited 16)

  37. Wei Cai, V. V. Bulatov, J. Chang, J. Li, and S. Yip, "Periodic Image Effects in Dislocation Modeling", Philosophical Magazine A, 83, 539 (2003). [PDF] [isi] (cited 30)

  38. M. de Koning, R. J. Kurtz, V. V. Bulatov, C. H. Henager, R. G. Hoagland, Wei Cai and M. Nomura, "Modeling of dislocation-grain boundary interactions in FCC metals", Journal of Nuclear Materials, 323, 281 (2003). [PDF] [isi] (cited 18)

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  39. Wei Cai, M. H. Kalos, M. de Koning and V. V. Bulatov, "Importance Sampling of Rare Transition Events in Markov Processes", Physical Review E, 66, 046703 (2002). [PDF] [isi] (cited 9)

  40. V. V. Bulatov and Wei Cai, "Nodal effects in dislocation mobility", Physical Review Letters, 89, 115501 (2002). [PDF] [isi] (cited 8)

  41. Wei Cai, V. V. Bulatov, J. F. Justo, A. S. Argon and S. Yip, "Kinetic Monte Carlo Approach to Modeling Dislocation Mobility", Computational Materials Science, 23, 124, (2002). [PDF] [isi] (cited 8)

  42. J. Chang, Wei Cai, V. V. Bulatov, and S. Yip, "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Motion of Edge and Screw Dislocations in a Metal", Computational Materials Science, 23, 111, (2002). [PDF] [isi] (cited 18)

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  43. Wei Cai, V. V. Bulatov, J. Chang, J. Li, and S. Yip, "Anisotropic Elastic Interactions of a Periodic Dislocation Array", Physical Review Letters, 86, 5727 (2001). [PDF] [isi] (cited 25)

  44. V. V. Bulatov, J. F. Justo, Wei Cai, S. Yip, A. S. Argon, T. Lenosky, M. de Koning and T. D. de la Rubia, "Parameter-free Modeling of Dislocation Motion: The Case of Silicon", Philosophical Magazine A, 81, 1257 (2001). [PDF] [isi] (cited 33)

  45. Wei Cai, V. V. Bulatov, S. Yip and A. S. Argon, "Kinetic Monte Carlo Modeling of Dislocation Motion in BCC Metals", Materials Science and Engineering A, 309-310, 270 (2001). [PDF] [isi] (cited 9)

  46. J. Chang, Wei Cai, V. V. Bulatov and S. Yip, "Dislocation Motion in BCC Metals by Molecular Dynamics", Materials Science and Engineering A, 309-310, 160 (2001). [PDF] [isi] (cited 19)

  47. J. F. Justo, M. de Koning, Wei Cai and V. V. Bulatov, "Point defect interaction with dislocations in silicon", Materials Science and Engineering A, 309-310, 129 (2001). [isi] (cited 4)

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  48. Wei Cai, M. de Koning, V. V. Bulatov and S. Yip, "Minimizing Boundary Reflections in Coupled-Domain Simulations", Physical Review Letters, 85, 3213 (2000). [PDF] [isi] (cited 75)

  49. Wei Cai, V. V. Bulatov, J. F. Justo, S. Yip and A. S. Argon, "Intrinsic Mobility of a Dissociated Dislocation in Silicon", Physical Review Letters, 84, 3346 (2000). [PDF] [isi] (cited 37)

  50. J. F. Justo, M. de Koning, Wei Cai and V. V. Bulatov, "Vacancy Interaction with Dislocation in Silicon: The Shuffle versus Glide Competition", Physical Review Letters, 84 2172 (2000). [PDF] [isi] (cited 34)

  51. M. de Koning, Wei Cai, A. Antonelli and S. Yip, "Efficient Free-Energy Calculations by the Simulation of Nonequilibrium Processes", Computing in Science and Engineering, 2, 88 (2000). [PDF] [isi] (cited 10)

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  52. Wei Cai, V. V. Bulatov and S. Yip, "Kinetic Monte Carlo method for dislocation glide in silicon ", Journal of Computer-Aided Material Design, 6 (2-3), 175 (1999). Journal of Computer-Aided Materials Design, 6, 175 (1999). [PDF] [isi] (cited 11)

  53. V. V. Bulatov, J. F. Justo, Wei Cai and S. Yip, "Kink Asymmetry and Multiplicity in Dislocation Cores", Physical Review Letters, 79, 5042 (1997). [PDF] [isi] (cited 28)

Total times cited: 549. The h-index 14. As of 2009/07/20.

Books and Chapters [back to home page]

  1. Vasily V. Bulatov and Wei Cai, Computer Simulations of Dislocations, Oxford University Press, Oct 2006. (google book preview)

  2. Wei Cai, "Modelling Dislocations using a Periodic Supercell", Handbook of Materials Modelling, S. Yip, ed. Section 2.21, Springer (2005).

  3. Wei Cai, V. V. Bulatov, J. Chang, J. Li and S. Yip, "Dislocation Core Effects on Mobility", in F. R. N. Nabarro and J. P. Hirth ed. Dislocations in Solids, North-Holland Pub. vol. 12, p. 1 (2004). [PDF] (google book preview)

  4. Wei Cai, "Atomistic and Mesoscale Modeling of Dislocation Mobility", PhD Thesis, Massachesetts Institute of Technology, 2001. [PDF]

Conference Proceedings [back to home page]

  1. C. R. Weinberger, S. Aubry, S.-W. Lee and Wei Cai, "Dislocation Dynamics Simulations in a Cylinder", Proceedings of the Dislocations 2008 International Conference, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, in press (2009).

  2. Vasily Bulatov, Wei Cai, Jeff Fier, Masato Hiratani, Tim Pierce, Meijie Tang, Moono Rhee, Kim Yates, Tom Arsenlis, Scalable Line Dynamics in ParaDiS, Conference on High Performance Networking and Computing, Proceedings of the Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Super Computing 2004 Conference (SC'04), p. 19. [PDF]

  3. Wei Cai, Vasily V. Bulatov, Tim G. Pierce, Masato Hiratani, Moono Rhee, Maria Bartelt and Meijie Tang, Massively-Parallel Dislocation Dynamics Simulations, in Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, H. Kitagawa, Y. Shibutani, eds., vol. 115, p. 1, Kluwer Academic Publisher 2004. [PDF]

  4. Meijie Tang, Guanshui Xu, Wei Cai and Vasily V. Bulatov, "Dislocation Image Stresses at Free Surfaces by the Finite Element Method", Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. vol 795, U.2.4.1 (2004). [PDF]

  5. Ju Li, Wei Cai, Jinpeng Chang and Sidney Yip, Atomistic Measures of Materials Strength and Deformation, in Computational Materials Science, ed. R. C. Catlow and E. Kotomin, NATO Science Series, Series III: Computer and Systems Sciences, vol. 187, ISBN 1387-6694, pp. 359-387, (IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2003). [PDF]

  6. Ju Li, Wei Cai, Jinpeng Chang and Sidney Yip, Commentary on Atomistic Simulations of Materials Strength and Deformation: Prospects for Mechanistic Insights, in Materials Science for the 21st Century, Society of Materials Science, Japan, 2001, vol. A, p. 220-233. [PDF]

  7. V. V. Bulatov, M. Rhee and Wei Cai, Periodic Boundary Conditions for Dislocation Dynamics Simulations in Three Dimensions, Materials Research Society Proceedings, vol. 653, Z1.3.1 (2001). [PDF]

  8. Wei Cai, V. V. Bulatov, J. F. Justo, S. Yip and A. S. Argon, Dynamics of Dissociated Dislocations in Si: A Micro-Meso Simulation Methodology, Materials Research Society Proceedings, 538, 69 (1999).