Evidence for large configuration-induced band-gap fluctuations in GaAs 1-xNx alloys

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Bentoumi, G ^a   Timoshevskii, V ^a   Madini, N ^a   Cote M ^a   Leonelli, R ^a   Beaudry, J N ^b   Desjardins, P ^b   Masut, R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; NITROGEN;

ABSORPTION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FILM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 42749102956     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.035315     Document Type: Article

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