Extraordinarily complex crystal structure with mesoscopic patterning in barium at high pressure

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 627-632

  Loa, I ^a   Nelmes, R J ^a   Lundegaard, L F ^a   McMahon, M I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CALCULATIONS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; LATTICE THEORY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ELECTRONIC TRANSFERS; FIRST PRINCIPLES ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; INTER-ATOMIC DISTANCES; MESOSCOPIC PATTERNING; PSEUDOPOTENTIAL THEORY; STRUCTURE DETERMINATION; SYNCHROTRON X RAY DIFFRACTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PATTERNS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 84862646031     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3342     Document Type: Article

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