Origin of incompressibility and hardness from electronic and mechanical properties of hard material ruthenium diboride

Solid State Communications

Volumn 150, Issue 23-24, 2010, Pages 1095-1098

  Kanoun, Mohammed Benali ^a   Shein, Igor R ^b   Goumri Said, Souraya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

A. Ruthenium diboride; B. Ab initio calculations; D. Hardness; D. Mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; D. HARDNESS; D. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; DIBORIDES;

BORIDES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; HARDNESS; RUTHENIUM;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 77951115128     PISSN: 00381098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2010.03.014     Document Type: Article

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