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American Mineralogist

Volumn 96, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 437-443

  Caracas, Razvan ^a,b   Bobocioiu, Ema ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Database; Density functional theory; Dielectric; Identification; Infrared; Mineral physics; Raman

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INFRARED RADIATION; MINERALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPECTROSCOPY; WEBSITES;

ATOMIC DISPLACEMENT PATTERN; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL PERTURBATION THEORY; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; MINERAL PHYSICS; RAMAN; RAMAN AND INFRARED SPECTRA; TEACHING AND RESEARCHES; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DATABASE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MINERAL PROPERTY; MINERALOGY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 79952144243     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2011.3532     Document Type: Article

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