Dynamic and structural stability of cubic vanadium nitride

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Mei, A B ^a   Hellman, O ^b,c   Wireklint, N ^d   Schleputz C M ^e   Sangiovanni, D G ^b   Alling, B ^b   Rockett, A ^a   Hultman, L ^b   Petrov, I ^a,b   Greene, J E ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84961290137     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.054101     Document Type: Article

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