Ab initio absorption spectra and optical gaps in nanocrystalline silicon

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1813-1816

  Vasiliev, Igor ^a   Öǧüt, Serdar ^a   Chelikowsky, James R ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; BINDING ENERGY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENERGY GAP; EXCITONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; TIME DEPENDENT LOCAL DENSITY APPROXIMATION;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

EID: 0345955516     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1813     Document Type: Article

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