Evaluating optical parameters from electronic structure and crystal structure for binary (ANB8-N) and ternary (A NB2+NC27-N) tetrahedral semiconductors

Modern Physics Letters B

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 2511-2524

  Verma, Ajay Singh ^a   Sharma, Sheetal ^a   Jindal, V K ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

band gap; chalcopyrites; optical electronegativity; Refractive index

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956575010     PISSN: 02179849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217984910024821     Document Type: Article

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