Ab-initio study of small silver nanoclusters

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 363-368

  Agrawal, B K ^a   Agrawal, Savitri ^a   Srivastava, Pankaj ^b   Singh, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^b MADHAV INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Ag clusters; Binding energy; Bond length; Electronic states; HOMO LUMO gap; Structures

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; POLARIZATION; SILVER;

AG CLUSTERS; BOND LENGTH; HOMO-LUMO GAP; NANOCLUSTERS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 9144250275     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:NANO.0000046744.53994.4d     Document Type: Article

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