Indirect-Direct Band Transformation of Few-Layer BiOCl under Biaxial Strain

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 120, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 8589-8594

  Xu, Zhongfei ^a   Hao, Weichang ^a   Zhang, Qianfan ^a   Fu, Zhongheng ^a   Feng, Haifeng ^a,b   Du, Yi ^a,b   Dou, Shixue ^a,b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; BOND LENGTH;

BAND STRUCTURE TRANSFORMATION; BIAXIAL STRAINS; BIAXIAL TENSILE; COMPRESSIVE STRAIN; DIFFERENT LAYERS; INTERLAYER SPACINGS; LAYER NUMBER; LAYERED COMPOUND;

STRAIN;

EID: 84966290840     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b12258     Document Type: Article

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