First-principles calculation of carrier-phonon scattering in n -type Si1-x Gex alloys

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Murphy Armando, F ^a   Fahy, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

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EID: 46749147593     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.035202     Document Type: Article

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