Silicon-carbon fullerenelike nanostructures: An ab initio study on the stability of Si60 C2n (n=1,2) clusters

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Srinivasan, A ^a   Huda, M N ^a,b   Ray, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; PSEUDOPOTENTIAL; SI60 CAGES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRONS; FULLERENES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SILICON;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33244454507     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.063201     Document Type: Article

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