A combined high-pressure experimental and theoretical study of the electronic band-structure of scheelite-type AWO4 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba, Pb) compounds

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Lacomba Perales, R ^a   Errandonea, D ^a   Segura, A ^a   Ruiz Fuertes, J ^a   Rodriguez Hernandez P ^b   Radescu, S ^b   Lopez Solano J ^b   Mujica, A ^b   Munoz A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE EARTH; BAND GAP ENERGY; BAND GAPS; DIVALENT METALS; ELECTRONIC BAND-STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH-PRESSURE PHASIS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION EDGE; PRESSURE COEFFICIENTS; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; PRESSURE EVOLUTION; PRESSURE RANGES; PRESSURE-INDUCED PHASE TRANSITION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BAND STRUCTURE; BARIUM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; EXPERIMENTS; LEAD; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TUNGSTATE MINERALS;

LEAD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 80052415238     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3622322     Document Type: Article

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