Role of surface structural motifs on the stability and reflectance anisotropy spectra of Sb-rich GaSb(001) reconstructions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Hogan, Conor ^a,b   Magri, Rita ^c   Del Sole, Rodolfo ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

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EID: 79961049721     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.155421     Document Type: Article

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