Combined tight-binding and density functional molecular dynamics investigation of Si12 cluster structure

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 9833-9840

  Ramakrishna, Mushti V ^a   Bahel, Atul ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001058536     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.471742     Document Type: Article

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