Novel metastable metallic and semiconducting germaniums

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Selli, Daniele ^a   Baburin, Igor A ^a,b   Martoňák, Roman ^c   Leoni, Stefano ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; GERMANIUM; METAL; SILICON; TIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; PRESSURE; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAMOND; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GERMANIUM; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PRESSURE; SEMICONDUCTORS; SILICON; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TIN;

EID: 84876551562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01466     Document Type: Article

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