Phase transition properties of SmTe under pressure

Phase Transitions

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 240-246

  Gupta, Dinesh Chandra ^a   Kulshrestha, Subhra ^a  

^a JIWAJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Equation of state; High pressure phase transition; SmTe; Structural phase transition

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; B1 PHASE; B2 PHASE; BULK MODULUS; EQUATION OF STATE; EXCHANGE CORRELATION ENERGY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH-PRESSURE PHASE TRANSITION; ISOSTRUCTURAL; PHASE TRANSITION PROPERTIES; PRESSURE DERIVATIVES; SMTE; SPACE GROUPS; STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITION; TOTAL ENERGY; TRANSITION PRESSURE; VALENCE TRANSITIONS; VOLUME COLLAPSE;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; TERNARY SYSTEMS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 67651248321     PISSN: 01411594     EISSN: 10290338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411590902728634     Document Type: Article

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