Influence of tetragonal distortion on the topological electronic structure of the half-Heusler compound LaPtBi from first principles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, X M ^a,b   Wang, W H ^a   Liu, E K ^a   Liu, G D ^b   Liu, Z Y ^c   Wu, G H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST-PRINCIPLES; HALF-HEUSLER COMPOUND; IN-PLANE STRAINS; LOCAL SPIN DENSITY APPROXIMATION; STRAIN ENGINEERING; TETRAGONAL DISTORTION; UNIT CELLS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 80052077824     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3625946     Document Type: Article

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