Double-diamond NaAl via pressure: Understanding structure through Jones zone activation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 132, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Feng, Ji ^a   Hoffmann, Roald ^b   Ashcroft, N W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN; COMPOUND FORMATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; DIAMOND STRUCTURES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; NORMAL CONDITION; SECOND ORDERS; STOICHIOMETRIC COMPOUND; STRUCTURAL TYPE;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ALUMINUM; DIAMONDS; INTERMETALLICS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; SODIUM; THALLIUM;

THALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77949686255     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3328198     Document Type: Article

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