Calibrating transition-metal energy levels and oxygen bands in first-principles calculations: Accurate prediction of redox potentials and charge transfer in lithium transition-metal oxides

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Seo, Dong Hwa ^a   Urban, Alexander ^a   Ceder, Gerbrand ^a,b,c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84942430788     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.115118     Document Type: Article

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