Dual nature of acceptors in GaN and ZnO: The curious case of the shallow MgGa deep state

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Lany, Stephan ^a   Zunger, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTOR DOPANTS; DEEP LEVEL; DELOCALIZED STATE; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL METHODS; IONIZATION ENERGIES; TRANSIENT STATE; ZNO;

GALLIUM ALLOYS; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

GALLIUM NITRIDE;

EID: 77951183880     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3383236     Document Type: Article

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