Experimental and theoretical study of electron density and structure factors in CoSb3

Ultramicroscopy

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 847-853

  Saeterli R ^a   Flage Larsen, E ^b   Friis, J ^c   Lovvik O M ^b   Pacaud, J ^d   Marthinsen, K ^a   Holmestad, R ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

CBED; DFT; Electronic structure; Skutterudite

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC POSITIONS; CALCULATED VALUES; CBED; CONVERGENT-BEAM ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; DFT; FUNCTIONALS; LARGE UNIT CELL; LATTICE GEOMETRY; REFINED STRUCTURES; SKUTTERUDITE; STRUCTURE FACTORS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; SKUTTERUDITES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

REFINING;

ANTIMONY DERIVATIVE; SKUTTERUDITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT BEAM ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON DENSITY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANTIMONY; COBALT; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTRONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 80053051932     PISSN: 03043991     EISSN: 18792723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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