Optical evidence for a nonmolecular phase of nitrogen above 150 GPa

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1262-1265

  Goncharov, Alexander F ^a   Gregoryanz, Eugene ^a   Mao, Ho Kwang ^a   Liu, Zhenxian ^a   Hemley, Russell J ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL BONDS; DISSOCIATION; ENERGY GAP; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; NITROGEN; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONMOLECULAR PHASE TRANSITION; SYNCHROTRON INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATIONAL SPLITTING;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 0034249067     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1262     Document Type: Article

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