Experimental observation of boron nitride chains

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 11950-11957

  Cretu, Ovidiu ^a   Komsa, Hannu Pekka ^b   Lehtinen, Ossi ^c   Algara Siller, Gerardo ^c   Kaiser, Ute ^c   Suenaga, Kazu ^a   Krasheninnikov, Arkady V ^b,d  

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

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MISIS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

atomic chain; electronic structure calculations; hexagonal boron nitride; irradiation; transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; IRRADIATION; NITRIDES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSIONS;

ATOMIC CHAINS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES;

BORON NITRIDE;

EID: 84919779815     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5046147     Document Type: Article

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