Structures and stabilities of copper encapsulated within silicon nano-clusters: Cu@Sin (n = 9-15)

Chemical Physics Letters

Volumn 451, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 93-97

  Hossain, Delwar ^a,b,c   Pittman Jr , Charles U ^a   Gwaltney, Steven R ^a,b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENCAPSULATION;

CLUSTER SIZE; EMBEDDING ENERGIES; RELATIVE CLUSTER STABILITIES; SILICON NANOCLUSTERS;

SILICON;

EID: 37449022582     PISSN: 00092614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2007.11.067     Document Type: Article

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