Entropy-Driven Clustering in Tetrahedrally Bonded Multinary Materials

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Zawadzki, Paweł ^a   Zakutayev, Andriy ^a   Lany, Stephan ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; ENTROPY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITIVE IONS; ZINC COMPOUNDS; ZINC SULFIDE;

CATION CLUSTERING; ENTROPY-DRIVEN MECHANISMS; HOMOGENEOUS PHASE; MODEL HAMILTONIANS; NANO-METER SCALE; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; POTENTIAL FLUCTUATIONS; STRUCTURAL MOTIFS;

TIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84945260380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.3.034007     Document Type: Article

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