Ab initio intraband contributions to the optical properties of metals

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Cazzaniga, Marco ^a   Caramella, Lucia ^a   Manini, Nicola ^a   Onida, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

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EID: 77956711864     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.035104     Document Type: Article

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