Electronic origin of structural trends across early transition-metal disilicides: Anomalous behavior of CrSi2

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Pankhurst, D A ^a   Nguyen Manh, D ^a   Pettifor, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; METAL; MOLYBDENUM; NIOBIUM; SILICON; TANTALUM; TITANIUM; TUNGSTEN; VANADIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84886483807     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.075113     Document Type: Article

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