Body-centered tetragonal C4: A viable sp3 carbon allotrope

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Umemoto, Koichiro ^a   Wentzcovitch, Renata M ^a   Saito, Susumu ^b   Miyake, Takashi ^c  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ALLOTROPES; COLD COMPRESSION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; HARD PHASE; HEXAGONAL DIAMOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NEW FORMS; ZERO PRESSURE;

GRAPHITE; HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 77950206218     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.125504     Document Type: Article

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