High-pressure phases of silane.

@article{Pickard2006HighpressurePO,
  title={High-pressure phases of silane.},
  author={Chris J. Pickard and Richard J. Needs},
  journal={Physical review letters},
  year={2006},
  volume={97 4},
  pages={
          045504
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:36278251}
}
The high-pressure phases of silane SiH4 are predicted using first-principles electronic structure methods and it is predicted that silane will metallize at higher pressures than previously anticipated but might show high-temperature superconductivity at experimentally accessible pressures.
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