Electronic structure and bandgap of γ-Al2O3 compound using mBJ exchange potential

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yazdanmehr, Mohsen ^a   Asadabadi, Saeid Jalali ^a   Nourmohammadi, Abolghasem ^a   Ghasemzadeh, Maid ^a   Rezvanian, Mahmood ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bandgap; Density functional theory; mBJ exchange potential

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; METALS; OXYGEN;

ALUMINUM CATION; CATIONIC VACANCY; ELECTRON CLOUDS; EXCHANGE POTENTIALS; LOCAL ORBITALS; OXYGEN ATOM; POROUS METAL OXIDES; VALENCE-BAND MAXIMUMS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84866114603     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-488     Document Type: Article

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