Structural metastability of endohedral silicon fullerenes
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Alex Willand,1 Matthias Gramzow,2 S. Alireza Ghasemi,1 Luigi Genovese,3 Thierry Deutsch,4 Karsten Reuter,2,5 and Stefan Goedecker1 1Department of Physics, Universität Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland 2Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany 3European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 6 rue Horowitz, 38043 Grenoble, France 4INAC/SP2M/L_Sim, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble, France 5Dept. Chemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85747 Garching, Germany Received 18 March 2010; revised manuscript received 23 April 2010; published 19 May 2010
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