Total energy differences between SiC polytypes revisited

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 12017-12022

  Limpijumnong, Sukit ^a   Lambrecht, Walter R L ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000145527     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.12017     Document Type: Article

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