Colossal tuning of an energy gap in Sn2P2S 6 under pressure

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Shchennikov, Vladimir V ^a   Morozova, Natalia V ^a   Tyagur, Iryna ^b   Tyagur, Yuriy ^c   Ovsyannikov, Sergey V ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LIBEREC   (Czech Republic)

^c UZHGOROD NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^d UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND GAP ENGINEERING; CONDUCTING STATE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; HIGH-PRESSURE EXPERIMENT; MONOCLINIC LATTICES; MULTI-FUNCTIONAL; RAMAN STUDIES; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY GAP; SOLIDS; TIN; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

EID: 81855228688     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3662926     Document Type: Article

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