Superconductivity in doped s p3 semiconductors: The case of the clathrates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 24, 2003, Pages

  Connetable D ^a   Timoshevskii, V ^a   Masenelli, B ^a   Beille, J ^c   Marcus, J ^c   Barbara, B ^c   Saitta, A M ^b   Rignanese, G M ^d   Melinon P ^a   Yamanaka, S ^e   Blase, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ELECTRONS; FERMI LEVEL; FERMI SURFACE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHONONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL PERTURBATIVE THEORY; DOPED SILICON CLATHRATES; ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLING;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0942290004     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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