Large band-gap bowing in Cu1-x Agx Ga S2 chalcopyrite semiconductors and its effect on optical parameters

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Mitra, Chandrima ^a   Lambrecht, Walter R L ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34447638388     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.035207     Document Type: Article

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