Homogeneous strain deformation path for the wurtzite to rocksalt high-pressure phase transition in GaN

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 91-94

  Limpijumnong, Sukit ^a,b   Lambrecht, Walter R L ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; ENTHALPY; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MAGNESIA; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SALTS; STRAIN; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ENERGETICS; FIRST PRINCIPLES TOTAL ENERGY CALCULATIONS; HIGH PRESSURE PHASE TRANSITIONS; HOMOGENEOUS ORTHORHOMBIC SHEAR STRAIN DEFORMATION; LOCAL DENSITY APPROXIMATION; ROCKSALT; WURTZITE;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 0035128959     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.91     Document Type: Article

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