Local chemical bonding around rare-earth ions in α- and β-Si3N4

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2525-2532

  Nakayasu, Tetsuo ^a   Yamada, Tetsuo ^a,d   Tanaka, Isao ^b,d   Adachi, Hirohiko ^b   Goto, Seishi ^c  

^a UBE INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND STRENGTH (CHEMICAL); CERAMIC MATERIALS; CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SOLUBILITY;

ANTIBONDING; LATTICE RELAXATION EFFECTS; MOLECULAR ORBITAL CALCULATIONS;

SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 0031257969     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1997.tb03154.x     Document Type: Article

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