Ab initio calculation of valley splitting in monolayer δ-doped phosphorus in silicon

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Drumm, Daniel W ^a,b   Budi, Akin ^a,b   Per, Manolo C ^b,c   Russo, Salvy P ^b   Hollenberg, Lloyd C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basis sets; Density functional theory; Phosphorus in silicon; Valley splitting; Doped layers

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATION THEORY; ELASTIC WAVES; LANDFORMS; MONOLAYERS; PHOSPHORUS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; SILICON; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; BASIS SETS; COMPUTATIONAL TRACTABILITY; DOPED LAYERS; EMPIRICAL MODELLING; PLANE WAVE METHODS; TRANSPORT SPECTROSCOPY; VALLEY SPLITTING;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84896376253     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-111     Document Type: Article

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