Electronic and bonding analysis of hardness in pyrite-type transition-metal pernitrides

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 90, Issue 13, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Z T Y ^a   Gall, D ^b   Khare, S V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 84908042673     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.134102     Document Type: Article

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