Ab initio modeling of α-GeTe(111) surfaces

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 116, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 15801-15811

  Deringer, Volker L ^a   Lumeij, Marck ^a   Dronskowski, Richard ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO MODELING; COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTS; COMPETING MODELS; CRYSTAL SURFACES; FINITE TEMPERATURES; GERMANIUM TELLURIDE; PLANE-WAVE BASIS SET; SLAB MODEL; STRUCTURAL RECONSTRUCTION; SUBSURFACE LAYER;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GERMANIUM; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

SURFACES;

EID: 84864212931     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp304455z     Document Type: Article

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