Strain-enhanced doping in semiconductors: Effects of dopant size and charge state

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Zhu, Junyi ^a,b   Liu, Feng ^a   Stringfellow, G B ^a   Wei, Su Huai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 78149330137     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.195503     Document Type: Article

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