Electronic structure calculation of MgO (001) surface with aggregated oxygen vacancies

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1057-1064

  Tobita, Motoi ^a   Ho, Shirun ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

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EID: 58149240825     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct700303v     Document Type: Article

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