Structural and Electronic Properties of GamSen Microclusters: Density Functional Theory Calculations

2009-04-01
Pekoz, Rengin
Erkoç, Şakir
Structural and electronic properties of GamSen, m + n < 5, microclusters are investigated using density functional theory at two different exchange-correlation functional and three different basis sets. Ground states of gallium, selenium, and their various binary combinations containing 2-5 atoms are identified. The optimum geometries, binding energies, vibrational properties, electronic structures, the possible dissociation channels and the energies of the clusters are obtained and compared with available theoretical studies and experimental data.
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL NANOSCIENCE

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Citation Formats
R. Pekoz and Ş. Erkoç, “Structural and Electronic Properties of GamSen Microclusters: Density Functional Theory Calculations,” JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL NANOSCIENCE, pp. 908–920, 2009, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56365.