Alloying effects on the optical properties of Ge1-x Six nanocrystals from time-dependent density functional theory and comparison with effective-medium theory

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Botti, Silvana ^a,b,c   Weissker, Hans Christian ^a,c,d   Marques, Miguel A L ^b,c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SOLIDES IRRADIÉS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility ETSF   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

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EID: 66149183136     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.155440     Document Type: Article

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