A new computer tool at the Bilbao Crystallographic Server to detect and characterize pseudosymmetry

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 186-196

  Capillas, Cesar ^a   Tasci, Emre Sururi ^a   De La Flor, Gemma ^a   Orobengoa, Danel ^a   Perez Mato, Juan Manuel ^a   Aroyo, Mois Ilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer software; Ferroelectrics; Pseudosymmetry; Space groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951664468     PISSN: 00442968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/zkri.2011.1321     Document Type: Article

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