Structural and electronic properties of Eu- and Pd-doped ZnO

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-7

  Assadi, Mohammad Hussein Naseef ^a,b   Zhang, Yuebin ^b   Zheng, Rong Kun ^a   Ringer, Simon Peter ^a   Li, Sean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; EUROPIUM COMPOUNDS; FERROMAGNETISM; GROUND STATE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PALLADIUM COMPOUNDS; RARE EARTHS;

AB INITIO DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORIES (DFT); EQUILIBRIUM BOND LENGTH; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; GROUND STATE PROPERTIES; INTRINSIC FERROMAGNETISM; RELATIVE STABILITIES; STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84862936150     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-357     Document Type: Review

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