Crystal and electronic structure of PbTe/CdTe nanostructures

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bukała, Małgorzata ^a   Sankowski, Piotr ^b   Buczko, Ryszard ^a   Kacman, Perła ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CALCULATIONS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; IV-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOCLUSTERS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; NANOSTRUCTURES;

AB INITIO METHOD; PBTE/CDTE; STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; TIGHT BINDING MODEL; CDTE; ELECTRON DENSITY OF STATE; MATRIX; PBTE;

LEAD COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 82955168105     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-126     Document Type: Article

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