Structures and electronic states of Mg incorporated into InN surfaces: First-principles pseudopotential calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Akiyama, Toru ^a   Nakamura, Kohji ^a   Ito, Tomonori ^a   Song, Jung Hwan ^b   Freeman, Arthur J ^b  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70249129105     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.075316     Document Type: Article

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