Tight-binding scheme for impurity states in semiconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2722-2725

  Chacham, H ^b   Capaz, R B ^a   Koiller, Belita ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

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EID: 0001643990     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.2722     Document Type: Article

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