Instability of the high-pressure CsCl structure in most III-V semiconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 1999, Pages R8449-R8452

  Kim, Kwiseon ^a   Ozolins V ^a,b   Zunger, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

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EID: 0000537927     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.R8449     Document Type: Article

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