supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 90306010 and 20371015);the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University,Chinese Ministry of Education (Grant No NCET-04-0653)
The lowest-energy structures and the electronic properties of CdnSn (n = 1 - 8) clusters have been studied by using denslty-functional theory simulating package DMol^3 in the generalized gradient approximation (GGA...