Semiempirical self-energy corrections to LDA bands of semiconductors, and a scaling law for the scissor operator
- 6 July 1992
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Vol. 4 (27) , 5967-5976
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/4/27/014
Abstract
A semiempirical approach to the evaluation of corrections to LDA electronic states and effective masses in semiconductors is described. Applications to GaAs, AlAs, Ge, Ga1-xAlxAs VCA alloys are presented, and a scaling law for the scissor operator is discussed.Keywords
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