Impurity dimers in superconducting B-doped diamond: Experiment and first-principles calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Bourgeois, E ^a   Bustarret, E ^b   Achatz, P ^b,c   Omnes F ^b   Blase, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

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EID: 33748885595     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.094509     Document Type: Article

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