Electronic signature of the pentagonal rings in silicon clathrate phases: Comparison with cluster-assembled films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 12590-12593

  Melinon P ^a   Keghelian P ^a   Blase, X ^a   Le Brusc, J ^a   Perez, A ^a   Reny, E ^b   Cros, C ^b   Pouchard, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INST CHIM MATIERE COND BORDEAUX   (France)

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EID: 0037877536     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.58.12590     Document Type: Article

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