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We have investigated the effects of hydrostatic pressure and compressive biaxial strain on the $\Gamma$-point energy states of GaN and InN with zincblende crystal structure via first-principles DFT+HSE06 computation. To correctly reproduce…
Accurate ab-initio pseudopotential calculations within density functional theory in the LDA approximation have been performed for structural properties and stability of ZnSe/GaAs(001) defected heterostructures. There is a strong…
We present a Density Functional Theory (DFT) based study of the structural and magnetic properties of the (001) surface of the semiconducting oxide ZnFe2O4 (spinel structure). The calculations were performed using the DFT based ab initio…
The electronic structure and chemical bonding of wurtzite-GaN investigated by N 1s soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy and N K, Ga M1, and Ga M2,3 emission spectroscopy is compared to that of pure Ga. The measurements are interpreted by…
Stability and electronic properties of atomic layers of GaN are investigated in the framework of the van der Waals-density functional theory. We find that the ground state of the layered GaN is a planar graphene-like configuration rather…
In this work an overall electronic structure including the position and formation energies of various intrinsic defects are computed for anatase using Density Functional Theory aided by Hubbard correction (DFT+U). The intrinsic point…
We have performed accurate \emph{ab--initio} pseudopotential calculations for the structural and electronic properties of ZnSe/GaAs(001) heterostructures with interface configurations accounting for charge neutrality prescriptions. Beside…
Ab initio density functional theory (DFT) and DFT plus coherent potential approximation (DFT+CPA) are employed to reveal, respectively, the effect of in-plane strain and site-diagonal disorder on the electronic structure of cubic boron…
The wurtzite (wz) structure of CdS is analyzed using density functional theory within the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and Hubbard correction (GGA+U). The total energy convergence evaluation is carried out concerning energy…
We study the formation energies of native point defects in GaN through density-functional theory. In our first-principles scheme, the band edges are positioned in accord with hybrid density functional calculations, thus yielding a band-gap…
We report on the structural and electronic properties of the interface between the multiferoic oxide YMnO$_3$ and wide band-gap semiconductor GaN studied with the Hubbard-corrected local spin density approximation (LSDA+U) to…
(a+c) dislocations in hexagonal materials are typically observed to be dissociated into partial dislocations. Edge (a+c) dislocations are introduced into (0001) nitride semiconductor layers by the process of plastic relaxation. As there is…
Equilibrium crystal structures, electron band dispersions and band gap values of layered GaSe and InSe semiconductors, each being represented by four polytypes, are studied via first-principles calculations within the density functional…
We combine experimental observations by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and density functional theory (DFT) to reveal the most stable edge structures of graphene on Ni(111) as well as the role of stacking-driven activation and…
The nature of the lattice instability connected to the structural transition and superconductivity of (Sr,Ca)$_3$Ir$_4$Sn$_{13}$ is not yet fully understood. In this work density functional theory (DFT) calculations of the phonon…
We present an ab initio, self consistent density functional theory (DFT) description of ground state electronic and related properties of hexagonal boron nitride (hex-BN). We used a local density approximation (LDA) potential and the linear…
We study the electronic properties of GaAs nanowires composed of both the zincblende and wurtzite modifications using a ten-band k.p model. In the wurtzite phase, two energetically close conduction bands are of importance for the…
In the framework of density functional theory (DFT), the structural and magnetic properties of FeN mono nitride have been investigated using the all electrons augmented spherical wave method (ASW) with a generalized gradient GGA functional…
Density functional theory (DFT) and thermal DFT (thDFT) calculations were used to evaluate the energy band structure, bandgap, and the total energy of various graphene quantum dots (GQDs). The DFT calculations were performed using local…
An oversight of several previous results from local density approximation (LDA) calculations appear to have led to an incomplete, and hence misleading, characterization of the capability of density functional theory (DFT) to describe…