Dicalcium nitride as a two-dimensional electride with an anionic electron layer

Nature

Volumn 494, Issue 7437, 2013, Pages 336-340

  Lee, Kimoon ^a   Kim, Sung Wng ^a,b   Toda, Yoshitake ^a   Matsuishi, Satoru ^a   Hosono, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANION; CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; DICALCIUM NITRIDE; ELECTRIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANION; ANISOTROPY; CALCIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELECTRON; HIGH PRESSURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOBILITY; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MAGNETIC FIELD; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 84874192711     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11812     Document Type: Article

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