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Electronic structures of the sulfide minerals sphalerite, wurtzite, pyrite, marcasite, and chalcopyrite

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

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/269021
Date January 2006
CreatorsJones, Robert
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEN-AUS
Detected LanguageEnglish
Rightscopyright 2006 Robert Jones

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