Electronic and optical properties of kesterite Cu2ZnSnS 4 under in-plane biaxial strains: First-principles calculations

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 377, Issue 37, 2013, Pages 2398-2402

  Li, Chun Ran ^a,b   Li, Yong Feng ^a   Yao, Bin ^a   Yang, Gang ^a   Ding, Zhan Hui ^a   Deng, Rui ^c   Liu, Lei ^d  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Biaxial strain; Electronic structure; First principle calculation; Optical property

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; STRAIN; TIN COMPOUNDS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

BIAXIAL STRAINS; COMPRESSIVE STRAIN; ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; HYBRID FUNCTIONAL; TENSILE BIAXIAL STRAIN;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84883487077     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2013.06.046     Document Type: Article

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