Identification of Novel Cu, Ag, and Au Ternary Oxides from Global Structural Prediction

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 4562-4573

  Cerqueira, Tiago F T ^a,b   Lin, Sun ^b,c   Amsler, Maximilian ^d   Goedecker, Stefan ^d   Botti, Silvana ^a,b   Marques, Miguel A L ^b,e  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ENERGY GAP; GOLD; SILVER; THROUGHPUT;

DELAFOSSITE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRONIC BAND GAPS; HIGH THROUGHPUT; HOLE EFFECTIVE MASS; MATERIALS DATABASE; TERNARY OXIDES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84937230943     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00716     Document Type: Article

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