Origin of the unusually large band-gap bowing and the breakdown of the band-edge distribution rule in the Snx Ge1-x alloys

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Yin, Wan Jian ^a   Gong, Xin Gao ^a   Wei, Su Huai ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 55449088128     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.161203     Document Type: Article

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