Negative thermal expansion in ZnF2

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Chatterji, Tapan ^a   Zbiri, Mohamed ^a   Hansen, Thomas C ^a  

^a INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; LATTICE PARAMETERS; LOW TEMPERATURES; NEGATIVE THERMAL EXPANSION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; UNIT-CELL VOLUME;

BUOYANCY; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 79957458593     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3588414     Document Type: Article

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