Theory of bond-length variations in relaxed, strained, and amorphous silicon-germanium alloys

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 1952091-19520911

  Tzoumanekas, C ^a,b   Kelires, P C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; GERMANIUM; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTICITY; ENERGY; ENTHALPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0037113629     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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