Theoretical evidence of a superconducting transition in doped silicon and germanium driven by a variation of chemical composition

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Kadas K ^a,b   Vitos, L ^a,b,c   Ahuja, R ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GERMANIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; THEORETICAL EVIDENCE;

SILICON;

EID: 38949161434     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2840696     Document Type: Article

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