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Title: Novel phase diagram behavior and materials design in heterostructural semiconductor alloys

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ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4];  [5];  [6]; ORCiD logo [7];  [7];  [8]; ORCiD logo [3];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3];  [5];  [6];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3]
  1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  2. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Swiss Federal Labs. for Materials Science and Technology, Dubendorf (Switzerland)
  3. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
  4. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
  5. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
  6. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
  7. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  8. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1364056
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1390707
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5K00-68325
Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308; AC02-76SF00515; ID0EUSDI18002
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Science Advances
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher:
AAAS
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; non-equilibrium materials; phase diagrams; semiconductor alloys; materials design; metastable materials; alloy theory; computational materials science

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Holder, Aaron M., Siol, Sebastian, Ndione, Paul F., Peng, Haowei, Deml, Ann M., Matthews, Bethany E., Schelhas, Laura T., Toney, Michael F., Gordon, Roy G., Tumas, William, Perkins, John D., Ginley, David S., Gorman, Brian P., Tate, Janet, Zakutayev, Andriy, and Lany, Stephan. Novel phase diagram behavior and materials design in heterostructural semiconductor alloys. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1700270.
Holder, Aaron M., Siol, Sebastian, Ndione, Paul F., Peng, Haowei, Deml, Ann M., Matthews, Bethany E., Schelhas, Laura T., Toney, Michael F., Gordon, Roy G., Tumas, William, Perkins, John D., Ginley, David S., Gorman, Brian P., Tate, Janet, Zakutayev, Andriy, & Lany, Stephan. Novel phase diagram behavior and materials design in heterostructural semiconductor alloys. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1700270
Holder, Aaron M., Siol, Sebastian, Ndione, Paul F., Peng, Haowei, Deml, Ann M., Matthews, Bethany E., Schelhas, Laura T., Toney, Michael F., Gordon, Roy G., Tumas, William, Perkins, John D., Ginley, David S., Gorman, Brian P., Tate, Janet, Zakutayev, Andriy, and Lany, Stephan. Wed . "Novel phase diagram behavior and materials design in heterostructural semiconductor alloys". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1700270. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1364056.
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title = {Novel phase diagram behavior and materials design in heterostructural semiconductor alloys},
author = {Holder, Aaron M. and Siol, Sebastian and Ndione, Paul F. and Peng, Haowei and Deml, Ann M. and Matthews, Bethany E. and Schelhas, Laura T. and Toney, Michael F. and Gordon, Roy G. and Tumas, William and Perkins, John D. and Ginley, David S. and Gorman, Brian P. and Tate, Janet and Zakutayev, Andriy and Lany, Stephan},
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journal = {Science Advances},
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year = {Wed Jun 07 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Jun 07 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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