Discovery of the ternary nanolaminated compound Nb 2GeC by a systematic theoretical-experimental approach

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Eklund, Per ^a   Dahlqvist, Martin ^a   Tengstrand, Olof ^a   Hultman, Lars ^a   Lu, Jun ^a   Nedfors, Nils ^b   Jansson, Ulf ^b   Rosén, Johanna ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATERIALS SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; THEORETICAL RESULT; THIN FILM SYNTHESIS;

GERMANIUM; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE STABILITY;

NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84863933503     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.035502     Document Type: Article

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