Calcium with the β-tin structure at high pressure and low temperature

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 41, 2012, Pages 16459-16462

  Li, Bing ^a,b   Ding, Yang ^c   Yang, Wenge ^b   Wang, Lin ^a,b   Zou, Bo ^a   Shu, Jinfu ^d   Sinogeikin, Stas ^e   Park, Changyong ^e   Zou, Guangtian ^a   Mao, Ho Kwang ^d  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b High Pressure Synergetic Consortium   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Phase transition; Structure distortion

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; TIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COOLING; ENTHALPY; LOW TEMPERATURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNCHROTRON; THERMOSTABILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CALCIUM; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHASE TRANSITION; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; TIN; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84867391780     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214754109     Document Type: Article

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