Structural and elastic properties of Ce2O3 under pressure from LDA+U method

Frontiers of Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 405-411

  Qi, Yuan Yuan ^a   Niu, Zhen Wei ^a   Cheng, Cai ^a   Cheng, Yan ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ce2O3; density functional theory; elastic properties; high pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880990860     PISSN: 20950462     EISSN: 20950470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11467-013-0331-y     Document Type: Article

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