First-principles prediction of icosahedral quantum dots for tetravalent semiconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Zhao, Yafeng ^a   Kim, Yong Hyun ^a   Du, Mao Hua ^a   Zhang, S B ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMIC PHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HYDROGENATION; KINETIC ENERGY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; ICOSAHEDRAL QUANTUM DOTS; LOCAL DENSITY APPROXIMATIONS (LDA); OPTICAL TRANSITIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 3442887675     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.015502     Document Type: Article

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