Nanostructural model of metal-insulator transition in layered Lix ZrNCl superconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Phillips, J C ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 41549087435     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.104534     Document Type: Article

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