Abnormally high melting temperature of the Sn10 cluster

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 1553291-1553295

  Joshi, Kavita ^a   Kanhere, D G ^a   Blundell, S A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; SILICON; TIN;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0042497069     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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