Evidence of a low compressibility carbon nitride with defect-zincblende structure

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2555-2559

  Martin Gil, Jesús ^a   Martin Gil, Francisco J ^a   Sarikaya, Mehmet ^b   Qian, Maoxu ^b   José Yacamán, Miguel ^c   Rubio, Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

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EID: 0342787544     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.364301     Document Type: Article

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