Tailoring electronic transparency of twin-plane 1D superlattices

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 5519-5525

  Tsuzuki, Helio ^a   Cesar, Daniel Ferreira ^a   Rebello De Sousa Dias, Mariama ^a   Castelano, Leonardo Kleber ^a   Lopez Richard, Victor ^a   Rino, José Pedro ^a   Marques, Gilmar Eugenio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

InP; nanowire; superlattice; transparency; transport; twin plane

Indexed keywords

1D SYSTEMS; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; INP; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL SUPERLATTICES; OPTICAL RESPONSE; STRAIN FIELDS; STRESS TENSORS; STRUCTURE ENGINEERING; SURFACE EFFECT; TRANSPORT; TWIN PLANES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOWIRES; TRANSPARENCY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 79961042369     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2008589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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