Vacancies and interstitials in indium nitride: Vacancy clustering and molecular bondlike formation from first principles

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Duan, X M ^a   Stampfl, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 66749143654     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.174202     Document Type: Article

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