Soft modes at the stacking faults in SiC crystals: First-principles calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Thomas, Tiju ^a   Pandey, Dhananjai ^b   Waghmare, Umesh V ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

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EID: 41549141227     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.121203     Document Type: Article

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