Learning from data to design functional materials without inversion symmetry

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Balachandran, Prasanna V ^a   Young, Joshua ^b   Lookman, Turab ^a   Rondinelli, James M ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION; CRYSTAL; DESIGN METHOD; INFORMATICS; OXYGEN; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DEVICE MATERIAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PHONON; PROCESS DESIGN; ROTATION;

EID: 85013155720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14282     Document Type: Article

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