Conductivity and transparency of TiO2 from first principles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8822, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Schleife, Andre ^a   Varley, Joel B ^a,b   Janotti, Anderson ^b   Van De Walle, Chris G ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Doping; Electron polaron; First principles; Hole polaron; Optical absorption; Reflectivity; Titania

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON POLARONS; ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; FIRST PRINCIPLES; HOLE POLARONS; THEORETICAL SPECTROSCOPIES; TITANIA; UBIQUITOUS APPLICATION;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); HYDROGEN; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLARONS; REFLECTION; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TRANSPARENCY;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84886650617     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2024566     Document Type: Conference Paper

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