Ab initio study of the structural, electronic and thermodynamic properties of of PbSe1-xSx, PbSe1-xTex and PbS 1-xTex ternary alloys

Physica Scripta

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Boukhris, N ^a   Meradji, H ^a   Ghemid, S ^a   Drablia, S ^a   El Haj Hassan, F ^b,c  

^a BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO STUDY; BAND GAP BOWING PARAMETER; BAND GAPS; BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; EXCHANGE AND CORRELATION; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; NONLINEAR DEPENDENCE; PERDEW-BURKE-ERNZERHOF; PLANE WAVE METHODS;

CALCULATIONS; ENERGY GAP; LATTICE CONSTANTS; TERNARY ALLOYS; TERNARY SYSTEMS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

CERIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 79958104162     PISSN: 00318949     EISSN: 14024896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/83/06/065701     Document Type: Article

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