Superconductivity in hydrogen dominant materials: Silane

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5869, 2008, Pages 1506-1509

  Eremets, M I ^a   Trojan, I A ^a,c   Medvedev, S A ^a   Tse, J S ^b   Yao, Y ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; HYDROGEN; SILANE;

ALLOY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROGEN; INORGANIC COMPOUND; METAL; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONDUCTANCE; MATERIALS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

IVA;

EID: 40849139337     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153282     Document Type: Article

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