Mechanical and electronic properties of hard rhenium diboride of low elastic compressibility studied by first-principles calculation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Zhang, R F ^a   Veprek, S ^a   Argon, A S ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONDING; BRITTLENESS; CHARGE DENSITY; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; RHENIUM COMPOUNDS;

FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; RHENIUM DIBORIDE; VALENCE CHARGE DENSITY DISTRIBUTION;

COMPRESSIBILITY;

EID: 36249023107     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2805196     Document Type: Article

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