Rotation-reversal symmetries in crystals and handed structures

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 376-381

  Gopalan, Venkatraman ^a   Litvin, Daniel B ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

COUNTERCLOCKWISE DIRECTIONS; ELECTRIC POLARIZATION; PHYSICAL WORLD; REVERSAL SYMMETRY; STRUCTURAL SYMMETRY; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS; SYMMETRY OPERATIONS; TRANSLATIONAL SYMMETRY;

ROTATION;

EID: 79954992070     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2987     Document Type: Article

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