High-resolution spectroscopy of bonding in a novel BeP2N 4 compound

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 664-670

  Dennenwaldt, Teresa ^a   Ciston, Jim ^b   Dahmen, Ulrich ^b   Ching, Wai Yim ^c   Pucher, Florian J ^a   Schnick, Wolfgang ^a   Scheu, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DFT; EELS; inorganic compounds condensed matter; TEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903770693     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927614000713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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