Coupled effects in quantum dot nanostructures with nonlinear strain and bridging modelling scales

Computers and Structures

Volumn 85, Issue 11-14, 2007, Pages 698-711

  Melnik, Roderick ^a   Mahapatra, Roy ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bandstructure calculation; Coupled effects; Fluid dynamics type approximations; Multiscale methodologies; Nonlinear strain; Piezoelectric contributions; Quantum dots; Semiconductor modelling

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR MODELING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

LINEAR MODELS; OPTOELECTROMECHANICAL; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 34248182846     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2007.01.046     Document Type: Article

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