Amorphous diamond: A high-Pressure superhard carbon allotrope

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Lin, Yu ^a   Zhang, Li ^b   Mao, Ho Kwang ^b   Chow, Paul ^b   Xiao, Yuming ^b   Baldini, Maria ^b   Shu, Jinfu ^b   Mao, Wendy L ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS STRUCTURES; CARBON ALLOTROPES; CONFINING PRESSURES; DIAMOND-LIKE; HIGH HARDNESS; INDENTERS; STRESS DIFFERENCE; SUPERHARD; SYNCHROTRON X RAYS;

GLASSY CARBON; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMORPHOUS CARBON;

EID: 80054735082     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.175504     Document Type: Article

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