An ab initio study of structural properties and single vacancy defects in Wurtzite AlN

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 4890-4896

  Hung, Andrew ^a   Russo, Salvy P ^a   McCulloch, Dougal G ^a   Prawer, Steven ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BONDING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POSITIVE IONS;

INTERATOMIC BONDING; OPTICAL BAND GAP;

ALUMINUM NITRIDE;

EID: 1842478690     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1645790     Document Type: Article

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