Structural and electronic properties of AlkTilNim microclusters: Density-functional-theory calculations

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 332021-3320210

  Oymak, Hüseyin ^a   Erkoç, Şakir ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; BINARY MIXTURES; DIMERS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GROUND STATE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

MICROCLUSTERS;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 0036757906     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.66.033202     Document Type: Article

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