Ultrastiff cubic TiO2 identified via first-principles calculations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Swamy, Varghese ^a   Muddle, Barry C ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELASTIC MODULI; FLUORSPAR; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS; HARTREE-FOCK FORMULATIONS; ULTRAHARD MATERIAL;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 33846544471     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.035502     Document Type: Article

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