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Epitaxial Growth of III-Nitride Compounds

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Computational approach to investigate epitaxial growth of III-nitride compounds is primarily concerned with the numerical computation of electronic structures by ab initio calculations and semi-empirical atomistic techniques.

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    Tomonori Ito & Toru Akiyama

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Ito, T., Akiyama, T. (2018). Computational Methods. In: Matsuoka, T., Kangawa, Y. (eds) Epitaxial Growth of III-Nitride Compounds. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 269. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76641-6_2

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