Breakdown of the band-gap-common-cation rule: The origin of the small band gap of InN

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 16, 2003, Pages

  Wei, Su Huai ^a   Nie, Xiliang ^a   Batyrev, Iskander G ^a   Zhang, S B ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0141474710     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.165209     Document Type: Article

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