DFT+U studies of Cu doping and p-type compensation in crystalline and amorphous ZnS

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 39, 2015, Pages 26270-26276

  Pham, Hieu H ^a   Barkema, Gerard T ^b   Wang, Lin Wang ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84942780718     PISSN: 14639076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5cp04623h     Document Type: Article

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