Design and discovery of a novel half-Heusler transparent hole conductor made of all-metallic heavy elements

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yan, Feng ^a   Zhang, Xiuwen ^b   Yu, Yonggang G ^b   Yu, Liping ^c   Nagaraja, Arpun ^a   Mason, Thomas O ^a   Zunger, Alex ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; HEAVY METAL; IRIDIUM; METAL OXIDE; TANTALUM;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; HEAVY METAL; MOBILITY; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSPARENCY;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTOR; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 84933055579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8308     Document Type: Article

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