The effect of the violation of Vegard's law on the optical bowing in Si1-xGex alloys

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 234, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 493-497

  Charifi, Z ^a   Bouarissa, N ^a  

^a FERHAT ABBAS UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATTICE MISMATCH; OPTICAL LATTICES; SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS;

BOWING PARAMETERS; CHEMICAL DISORDER; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; IV-IV SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS; LATTICE RELAXATION; PSEUDOPOTENTIAL METHOD; VEGARD'S LAW; VIRTUAL CRYSTAL APPROXIMATION;

SI-GE ALLOYS;

EID: 0039500670     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(97)00575-6     Document Type: Article

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