First-principles study of CrB4 as a high shear modulus compound

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-15

  Xu, Hong Bin ^a   Wang, Yuan Xu ^a,b   Lo, V C ^b  

^a HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Borides; Elastic properties; Electronic structure; First principles calculations

Indexed keywords

BORIDES; BORON; CALCULATIONS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERMI LEVEL; SHEAR STRAIN;

A-STABLE; BORON ATOM; DENSITY OF STATE; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY; PSEUDO-GAP; SUPERHARD;

CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78650994009     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201004437     Document Type: Article

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