Charge state of the O2 molecule during silicon oxidation through hybrid functional calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Alkauskas, Audrius ^a,b   Broqvist, Peter ^a,b   Pasquarello, Alfredo ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT ROMAND DE RECHERCHE NUMÉRIQUE EN PHYSIQUE DES MATÉRIAUX IRRMA   (Switzerland)

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EID: 55349110275     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.161305     Document Type: Article

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