Ab initio study of high-pressure structural properties of the LuVO4 and ScVO4 zircon-type orthovanadates

High Pressure Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 582-586

  Lopez Solano, J ^a   Rodriguez Hernandez, P ^a   Munoz, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ab initio calculations; Phase transition; Pressure; Vanadates

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; AB INITIO STUDY; FERGUSONITE; HIGH-PRESSURE STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; ORTHOVANADATES; RELATIVE STABILITIES; SCHEELITE PHASE; SECOND PHASE; STABLE PHASIS;

EXPERIMENTS; SILICATE MINERALS; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TUNGSTATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 76149096882     PISSN: 08957959     EISSN: 14772299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08957950903417444     Document Type: Conference Paper

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