Band-gap bowing coefficients in large size-mismatched II-VI alloys: First-principles calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Moon, Chang Youn ^a   Wei, Su Huai ^a   Zhu, Y Z ^b   Chen, G D ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 33845480101     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.233202     Document Type: Article

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