Nearly free electron states in MXenes

Physical Review B

Volumn 93, Issue 20, 2016, Pages

  Khazaei, Mohammad ^a,b   Ranjbar, Ahmad ^b   Ghorbani Asl, Mahdi ^c   Arai, Masao ^a   Sasaki, Taizo ^a   Liang, Yunye ^d   Yunoki, Seiji ^b,e,f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Computational Science   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e RIKEN   (Japan)

^f RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

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EID: 84968830197     PISSN: 24699950     EISSN: 24699969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.205125     Document Type: Article

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