Wigner defects bridge the graphite gap

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 333-337

  Telling, Rob H ^a   Ewels, Chris P ^a,b   El Barbary, Ahlam A ^a   Heggie, Malcolm I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; IRRADIATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIATION EFFECTS;

DEFECT PRODUCTION; FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; GRAPHITIC CARBON MATERIALS; HIGH ENERGY NUCLEAR RADIATIONS; WIGNER EFFECTS;

GRAPHITE;

EID: 0041849966     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat876     Document Type: Article

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