First-principles study of the growth and diffusion of B and N atoms on the sapphire surface with h-BN as the buffer layer

Jianyun Zhao; Xu Li; Ting Liu; Yong Lu; Jicai Zhang

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/42/8/082801

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