Higher-order nonlinear electromechanical effects in wurtzite GaN/AlN quantum dots

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 22, Issue 49, 2010, Pages

  Bahrami Samani, Mehrdad ^a   Patil, Sunil R ^a,b   Melnik, Roderick ^a,c  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Instrumentation & Control Engineering   (India)

^c BCAM BASQUE CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC; BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL EFFECTS; ELECTROMECHANICAL MODELS; ELECTROSTRICTION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROSTRICTION EFFECTS; FINITE-ELEMENT; GAN/ALN QUANTUM DOTS; GENERALIZED MODELS; HIGHER ORDER; LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; MULTIBAND EFFECTIVE MASS THEORY; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; QUANTUM DOT; SPONTANEOUS POLARIZATIONS; WETTING LAYER; WURTZITE GAN/ALN QUANTUM DOTS;

BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTROSTRICTION; LATTICE MISMATCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ZINC SULFIDE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 78649805598     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/22/49/495301     Document Type: Article

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