Further optical properties of CdX (X=S, Te) compounds under quantum dot diameter effect: Ab initio method

Renewable Energy

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 232-236

  Al Douri, Y ^a   Baaziz, H ^b   Charifi, Z ^b   Khenata, R ^c   Hashim, U ^a   Al Jassim, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF M'SILA   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MASCARA   (Algeria)

^d NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

II VI; Optical properties; Quantum dot potential

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO METHOD; CDS; CDTE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORIES (DFT); ENERGY BAND CALCULATION; FULL POTENTIAL LINEARIZED AUGMENTED PLANE WAVE METHOD; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; II-VI;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; CALCULATIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

DIAMETER; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GENERALIST; LINEARITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 84859587503     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.02.020     Document Type: Article

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