The electronic spectra of sulfide minerals can be complex, and their features difficult to assign. Often, therefore, they are interpreted using electronic-structure models obtained from quantum-chemical calculations. The aim of this study is to provide such models for the minerals sphalerite, wurtzite, pyrite, marcasite, and chalcopyrite. All are important minerals within a mining context, either as a source for their component metals or as a gangue mineral. They are also semiconductors. Each is the structural archetype for a particular class of semiconductors, and so a knowledge of their electronic structures has wider applicability. / PhD Doctorate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/269021 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Jones, Robert |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | EN-AUS |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | copyright 2006 Robert Jones |
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