Investigation of band inversion in (Pb,Sn)Te alloys using ab initio calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Gao, Xing ^a   Daw, Murray S ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 38349165061     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.033103     Document Type: Article

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