Metals in beta-rhombohedral boron
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Joe Wong; Glen A. Slack
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Article
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1989
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Beta-boron is a semiconductor with a band gap of 1.5 eV. It is hard and refractory with a very high melting point of 2300 K. It satisfies the "small atom and large number of atoms (105) per unit cell" criteria for potentially high thermoelectric efficiency. Crystallographically, beta-boron is made u