First-principles investigations of the atomic, electronic, and thermoelectric properties of equilibrium and strained Bi2Se 3 and Bi2Te3 including van der Waals interactions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 18, 2012, Pages

  Luo, Xin ^a   Sullivan, Michael B ^a   Quek, Su Ying ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

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EID: 84870464158     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.184111     Document Type: Article

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