Electronic and optical properties of SiC polytypes using a transferable semi-empirical tight-binding model

Physica Status Solidi (B) Basic Research

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-100

  Laref, A ^a   Laref, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

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EID: 38549149336     PISSN: 03701972     EISSN: 15213951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssb.200642312     Document Type: Article

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