First-Principles Approach to Insulators in Finite Electric Fields

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2002, Pages

  Souza, Ivo ^a   Íñiguez, Jorge ^a   Vanderbilt, David ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENTHALPY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PIEZOELECTRICITY; REFRACTION; TENSORS;

BLOCH LIKE STATES; DIELECTRIC SUSCEPTIBITY; FIRST PRINCIPLE APPROACH; ZENER BREAKDOWN;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 0037048416     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.117602     Document Type: Article

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