Refinement of polycrystalline disordered cubic silicon carbide by structure modeling and X-ray diffraction simulation

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie - New Crystal Structures

Volumn 210, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 731-740

  Palosz, B ^a   Stel'makh, S ^a   Gierlotka, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PRESSURE PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Phase transformation; Stacking faults; Structure refinement

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043161726     PISSN: 14337266     EISSN: 00442968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/zkri.1995.210.10.731     Document Type: Article

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