Solution to spurious bands and spurious real solutions in the envelope-function approximation

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 24, 2005, Pages

  Szmulowicz, Frank ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 28244446937     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.245117     Document Type: Article

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