Structural, elastic constant, and vibrational properties of wurtzite gallium nitride: A first-principles approach

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 115, Issue 50, 2011, Pages 14502-14509

  Usman, Zahid ^a   Cao, Chuanbao ^a   Khan, Waheed S ^a   Mahmood, Tariq ^a   Hussain, Sajad ^a   Nabi, Ghulam ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RATIO; EFFECT OF PRESSURE; FINITE DISPLACEMENT; FIRST-PRINCIPLES APPROACHES; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; GRUNEISEN PARAMETERS; INTERNAL PARAMETERS; PHONON CALCULATION; PHONON DENSITY OF STATE; PHONON FREQUENCIES; PRESSURE DERIVATIVES; SECOND ORDERS; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; ULTRASOFT PSEUDOPOTENTIALS; VIBRATIONAL PROPERTIES; VOLUME CHANGE; WURTZITE GAN; WURTZITES; ZONE-CENTER PHONONS;

BOND LENGTH; CALCULATIONS; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; PHONONS; SHEAR FLOW; ZINC SULFIDE;

LATTICE CONSTANTS;

EID: 84055187670     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp207141k     Document Type: Article

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