Designing a robustly metallic noncenstrosymmetric ruthenate oxide with large thermopower anisotropy

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Puggioni, Danilo ^a   Rondinelli, James M ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION; METAL; NONCENTROSYMMETRIC METAL; OXIDE; RUTHENATE OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GUIDELINE; SYMMETRY;

ACCELERATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATOM; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONICS; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896527879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4432     Document Type: Article

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