Thermal expansion coefficients of Bi 2Se 3 and Sb 2Te 3 crystals from 10 K to 270 K

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 26, 2011, Pages

  Chen, X ^a   Zhou, H D ^b   Kiswandhi, A ^b   Miotkowski, I ^c   Chen, Y P ^c   Sharma, P A ^d   Lima Sharma, A L ^d   Hekmaty, M A ^e   Smirnov, D ^b   Jiang, Z ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR; DEBYE MODELS; LINEAR THERMAL EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; LOW TEMPERATURES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; X-RAY POWDER;

CRYSTALS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 84862908046     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3672198     Document Type: Article

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