Microscopic mechanism of the wurtzite-to-rocksalt phase transition of the group-III nitrides from first principles

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 13, 2007, Pages

  Cai, Jin ^a   Chen, Nanxian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 34247573410     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.134109     Document Type: Article

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