Ionization energies, Coulomb explosion, fragmentation, geometric, and electronic structures of multicharged boron clusters Bn (n= 2-13)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Akman, Nurten ^a   Tas, Murat ^b   Özdoǧan, Cem ^c   Boustani, Ihsan ^d  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c CANKAYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

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EID: 80052415994     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.075463     Document Type: Article

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