Universal medium-range order of amorphous metal oxides

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 15, 2013, Pages

  Nishio, Kengo ^a   Miyazaki, Takehide ^a   Nakamura, Hisao ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; AMORPHOUS METALS; MEDIUM RANGE ORDER; METAL ATOMS; METAL OXIDES; OXYGEN ATOM; RANDOM PACKING; TIO;

HAFNIUM OXIDES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

OXYGEN;

EID: 84885649054     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.155502     Document Type: Article

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