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Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 10, Issue 1, 015801(2025)

Realized stable BP-N at ambient pressure by phosphorus doping

Guo Chen1,2, Chengfeng Zhang1,2, Yuanqin Zhu1,2, Bingqing Cao1,2, Jie Zhang1, and Xianlong Wang1,2、a)
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Institute of Solid State Physics, HFIPS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
  • 2University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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    Received: Sep. 22, 2024

    Accepted: Dec. 13, 2024

    Published Online: Feb. 21, 2025

    The Author Email: Xianlong Wang (xlwang@theory.issp.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1063/5.0239841

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