Ab initio studies of adatom- and vacancy-induced band bending in Bi2Se3

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Förster, Tobias ^a   Krüger, Peter ^a   Rohlfing, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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EID: 84982862094     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.035313     Document Type: Article

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