Electronic structures of AlGaN2 nanotubes and AlN-GaN nanotube superlattice

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 703-707

  Pan, Hui ^a   Feng, Yuan Ping ^a   Lin, Jianyi ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Singapore)

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EID: 58149159587     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct7003116     Document Type: Article

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