Extraction of Green's functions from total energy plane wave pseudopotential calculations

Solid State Communications

Volumn 97, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 935-939

  James, R ^a   Woodley, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. surfaces and interfaces; C. scanning tunnelling microscopy; D. electronic band structure; D. electronic transport

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CALCULATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE;

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

EID: 0030109896     PISSN: 00381098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0038-1098(95)00815-2     Document Type: Article

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