Effect of spin-orbit coupling on small platinum nanoclusters

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Huda, M N ^a   Niranjan, Manish K ^a   Sahu, B R ^a   Kleinman, Leonard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; ISOMERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLATINUM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

PLANAR STRUCTURES; PLATINUM CLUSTERS; PTN CLUSTERS; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33646348991     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.053201     Document Type: Article

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