Ab initio absorption spectra of Ge nanocrystals

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Nesher, Guy ^a   Kronik, Leeor ^a   Chelikowsky, James R ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; HYDROGEN; SILICON;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; NANOPARTICLE; OSCILLATION;

EID: 15444378524     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.035344     Document Type: Article

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