Low compressible noble metal carbides with rocksalt structure: Ab initio total energy calculations of the elastic stability

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Fan, Chang Zeng ^a   Zeng, Song Yan ^a   Zhan, Zai Ji ^b   Liu, Ri Ping ^b   Wang, Wen Kui ^b   Zhang, Ping ^c   Yao, Yu Gui ^d  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBIDES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TRANSITION METALS;

ELASTIC CONSTANTS; NOBLE METAL CARBIDES; ROCKSALT STRUCTURE; TRANSITION METAL CARBIDES;

METALLIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33747508899     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2335571     Document Type: Article

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