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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 87, Issue 26, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2150578
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We present a theoretical study of crystal and electronic structures of CaB6 within a screened-exchange local density approximation (sX-LDA). Our ab initio total energy calculations show that CaB6 is a semiconductor with a gap of > 1.2 eV, in agreement with recent experimental observations. We show a very sensitive band-gap dependence on the crystal internal parameter, which might partially explain the scatter of previous theoretical results. Our calculation demonstrates that it is essential to study this system simultaneously for both crystal structures and electronic properties, and that the sX-LDA provides an ideal method for this problem. (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
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