Coexistence of ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism in tantalum clusters

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 125, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Fa, Wei ^a   Luo, Chuanfu ^a   Dong, Jinming ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERROELECTRICITY; FERROMAGNETISM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; NITRIDES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

GROUND-STATE STRUCTURES; PSEUDOPOTENTIAL DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; TANTALUM CLUSTERS; TRANSITION-METAL CLUSTER;

TANTALUM;

EID: 33748998194     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2338890     Document Type: Article

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