Metal-dimer atomic reconstruction leading to deep donor states of the anion vacancy in II-VI and chalcopyrite semiconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Lany, Stephan ^a   Zunger, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; NEGATIVE IONS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTOEMISSION; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; VAPOR PRESSURE; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

DEFECT FORMATION ENERGY; LOCAL DENSITY APPROXIMATIONS (LDA); VALENCE BAND MAXIMUM (VBM); ZNSE;

DIMERS;

EID: 19644400605     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.156404     Document Type: Article

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