Ab initio and semiempirical dielectric response of superlattices

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Botti, Silvana ^a   Vast, Nathalie ^a   Reining, Lucia ^a   Olevano, Valerio ^a   Andreani, Lucio Claudio ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SOLIDES IRRADIÉS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

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ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EMPIRICISM; EXCITATION; ION EXCHANGE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; OPTICS; REACTION ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 42749102502     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.045301     Document Type: Article

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