Shock-induced band-gap shift in GaN: Anisotropy of the deformation potentials

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Peng, H Y ^a,b   McCluskey, M D ^a,b   Gupta, Y M ^a,b   Kneissl, M ^c   Johnson, N M ^c  

^a Institute for Shock Physics   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM;

ABSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTATION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MEASUREMENT; SHOCK WAVE; TIME;

EID: 20044369992     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.115207     Document Type: Article

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