Band offsets of semiconductor heterostructures: A hybrid density functional study

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Wadehra, Amita ^a   Nicklas, Jeremy W ^a   Wilkins, John W ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND ENGINEERING; BAND OFFSETS; CONDUCTION BAND OFFSET; GROWTH DIRECTIONS; HETEROSTRUCTURES; HYBRID DENSITY FUNCTIONAL; PSEUDO-BINARIES; SEMI-CONDUCTOR ALLOYS; SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURES; SPECIAL QUASIRANDOM STRUCTURES;

CRYSTALS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON MOBILITY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RELIABILITY THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 77956356338     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3487776     Document Type: Article

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