Possible routes for synthesis of new boron-rich Fe-B and Fe1-x Crx B4 compounds

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Bialon, A F ^a   Hammerschmidt, T ^a   Drautz, R ^a   Shah, S ^b   Margine, E R ^b   Kolmogorov, A N ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; COATING APPLICATION; PSEUDO-BINARIES; THERMODYNAMIC FACTORS;

BORIDES; CHROMIUM; HARD COATINGS;

BORON;

EID: 79952086753     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3556564     Document Type: Article

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