Identification of structural changes in carbon-nitrogen alloys by studying the dependence of the plasmon energy on nitrogen concentration

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 3521-3523

  Alvarez, F ^a   Dos Santos, M C ^a   Hammer, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

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EID: 0000629854     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.122823     Document Type: Article

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