# Temperature and composition dependence of short-range order and entropy, and statistics of bond length: the semiconductor alloy (GaN)(1-x)(ZnO)(x).

@article{Liu2014TemperatureAC,
title={Temperature and composition dependence of short-range order and entropy, and statistics of bond length: the semiconductor alloy (GaN)(1-x)(ZnO)(x).},
author={Jian Liu and Luana Sucupira Pedroza and Carissa Misch and Maria Victoria Fernandez-Serra and Philip B. Allen},
journal={Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal},
year={2014},
volume={26 27},
pages={
274204
}
}
• Jian Liu, +2 authors P. B. Allen
• Published 31 December 2013
• Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, Medicine
• Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal
We present total energy and force calculations for the (GaN)1-x(ZnO)x alloy. Site-occupancy configurations are generated from Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, on the basis of a cluster expansion model proposed in a previous study. Local atomic coordinate relaxations of surprisingly large magnitude are found via density-functional calculations using a 432-atom periodic supercell, for three representative configurations at x = 0.5. These are used to generate bond-length distributions. The…
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