Structures of medium-sized silicon clusters

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6676, 1998, Pages 582-585

  Ho, Kai Ming ^a   Shvartsburg, Alexandre A ^b   Pan, Bicai ^a   Lu, Zhong Yi ^a   Wang, Cai Zhuang ^a   Wacker, Jacob G ^a   Fye, James L ^b   Jarrold, Martin F ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; ENTROPY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0032499194     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33369     Document Type: Article

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