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Title: Alloy Engineering of Topological Semimetal Phase Transition in MgTa 2 x Nb x N 3

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Physical Review Letters
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Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 120 Journal Issue: 13; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
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American Physical Society
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Huang, Huaqing, Jin, Kyung-Hwan, and Liu, Feng. Alloy Engineering of Topological Semimetal Phase Transition in MgTa 2 − x Nb x N 3. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.136403.
Huang, Huaqing, Jin, Kyung-Hwan, & Liu, Feng. Alloy Engineering of Topological Semimetal Phase Transition in MgTa 2 − x Nb x N 3. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.136403
Huang, Huaqing, Jin, Kyung-Hwan, and Liu, Feng. Tue . "Alloy Engineering of Topological Semimetal Phase Transition in MgTa 2 − x Nb x N 3". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.136403.
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