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Energy Bands of the Copper Halides
Author(s) -
Overhof H.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.2220970130
Subject(s) - copper , interpretation (philosophy) , electronic band structure , halide , spectral line , atomic physics , absorption (acoustics) , chemistry , energy (signal processing) , materials science , condensed matter physics , physics , optics , inorganic chemistry , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language , organic chemistry
The energy bands of CuCl, CuBr, and CuI in the zincblende modification are calculated using the relativistic KKR method. The resulting bands confirm qualitatively the empirical band model derived from photoemission and ESCA data. A tentative interpretation of the optical absorption spectra is made in terms of critical points of this band model.