Low-energy excitations in noncrystalline arsenic trioxide

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1341-1349

  Yannopoulos, S N ^a,b   Papatheodorou, G N ^a,b   Fytas, G ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL BONDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; POLARIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; RELAXATION PROCESSES; TEMPERATURE;

BOSE-EINSTEIN FACTOR; BOSON PEAK; DEPOLARIZATION RATIO; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; NONCRYSTALLINE ARSENIC TRIOXIDE;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 0031211922     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.474481     Document Type: Article

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