Structures and potential superconductivity in SiH4 at high pressure: En Route to "Metallic hydrogena"

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Feng, Ji ^a   Grochala, Wojciech ^a   Jaroå , Tomasz ^b   Hoffmann, Roald ^a   Bergara, Aitor ^c   Ashcroft, N W ^a,d  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^d Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; METALLIZING; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

GOLDHAMMER-HERZFELD CRITERION; HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR; METALLIC SILANE;

SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 32644461393     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.017006     Document Type: Article

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