First-principles modeling of hardness in transition-metal diborides

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lazar, Petr ^a   Chen, Xing Qiu ^a   Podloucky, Raimund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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EID: 69549133813     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.012103     Document Type: Article

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