First-principles study of the structural and electronic properties of III-phosphides

Physica B: Condensed Matter

Volumn 403, Issue 10-11, 2008, Pages 1876-1881

  Ahmed, Rashid ^a   Fazal e Aleem, ^a   Hashemifar, S Javad ^b   Akbarzadeh, Hadi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Band structure of crystalline solids; Cohesive energy calculations; DFT; Exchange correlation functional; FPLAPW; III V semiconductors

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COVALENT BONDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

COHESIVE ENERGY CALCULATIONS; EXCHANGE CORRELATION FUNCTIONAL; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATION (GGA); PHOSPHIDES;

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

EID: 40949156783     PISSN: 09214526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2007.10.342     Document Type: Article

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