Optical investigations using ultra-soft pseudopotential calculations of Si0.5Ge0.5 alloy

Solid State Communications

Volumn 148, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 521-524

  Al Douri, Y ^a   Feng, Y P ^b   Huan, A C H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

A. SiGe alloy; B. Optical properties; C. VASP

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; CERIUM ALLOYS; ENERGY GAP; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GERMANIUM; KETONES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON; SOLIDS; ZINC;

A. SIGE ALLOY; AB INITIO SIMULATIONS; B. OPTICAL PROPERTIES; C. VASP; OPTICAL DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; OPTICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PSEUDOPOTENTIAL CALCULATIONS; REASONABLE AGREEMENTS; TOTAL DENSITY OF STATES;

SILICON ALLOYS;

EID: 55549124497     PISSN: 00381098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2008.09.055     Document Type: Article

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