Negative- U property of oxygen vacancy in cubic Hf O 2

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Feng, Y P ^a   Lim, A T L ^a   Li, M F ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE STATES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON-LATTICE INTERACTION; OXYGEN VACANCY;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRONS; MOSFET DEVICES; OXYGEN;

HAFNIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 23944468042     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2009826     Document Type: Article

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