Raman spectra of nitrogen-doped tetrahedral amorphous carbon from first principles

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 4376-4380

  Niu, Li ^a,b   Zhu, JiaQi ^a   Gao, Wei ^c   Han, Xiao ^a   Du, ShanYi ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HARBIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AVIC Manufacturing Technology Institute   (China)

Author keywords

First principles; Nitrogen doping; Raman spectra; Tetrahedral amorphous carbon

Indexed keywords

EID: 74749087825     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0454-2     Document Type: Article

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