Electronic, dynamical, and thermal properties of ultra-incompressible superhard rhenium diboride: A combined first-principles and neutron scattering study

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  Zhou, W ^a,b   Wu, H ^a,c   Yildirim, T ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 36248998774     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.184113     Document Type: Article

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