Electronic and structural investigations of gold clusters doped with copper: Aun-1 Cu- (n=13-19)

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 128, Issue 18, 2008, Pages

  Zorriasatein, Shahab ^b   Joshi, Kavita ^c   Kanhere, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; ISOMERS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

COPPER DOPED SYSTEMS; EQUILIBRIUM GEOMETRIES; GOLD CLUSTERS;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 43949129766     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2913153     Document Type: Article

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