Crystal structure of the superconducting phase of sulfur hydride

Nature Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 835-838

  Einaga, Mari ^a   Sakata, Masafumi ^a   Ishikawa, Takahiro ^a   Shimizu, Katsuya ^a   Eremets, Mikhail I ^b   Drozdov, Alexander P ^b   Troyan, Ivan A ^b   Hirao, Naohisa ^c   Ohishi, Yasuo ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; HYDRIDES; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BODY-CENTRED-CUBIC STRUCTURES; DECOMPOSITION MECHANISM; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HIGH HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; SUPERCONDUCTING CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; SYNCHROTRON X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 84966589288     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3760     Document Type: Article

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