Limitations to band gap tuning in nitride semiconductor alloys

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Gorczyca, I ^a   Suski, T ^a   Christensen, N E ^b   Svane, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PRESSURE PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; BAND GAPS; BAND-GAP TUNING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LARGE BAND; LATTICE PARAMETERS; NITRIDE ALLOYS; NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTORS;

ENERGY GAP; INDIUM ALLOYS; NITRIDES; TUNING;

CERIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 77949681154     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3357419     Document Type: Article

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