Calculation of Structural and Electronic Properties of the Semi-Conductor MgSe in Wurtzite Hexagonal(B4) Phase by Using DFT

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Department of Physics, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, I.R. IRAN

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In this paper, we investigate structure and electronic properties such as lattice constant, bulk modules, compression, energy band structure also states and electronic density of the semi-conductor MgSe in hexagonal phase for B4 structure .We Calculate those mentioned above by applying the Full Potential-Linearized Augmented Plane Wave (FP-LAPW) method in the framework of Density Functional Theory (DFT) and by applying Wein2k-08 package. The obtained results showed the existence of energy gap straight 2.7 eV in Γ point. And also an ionic feature for this compound that is one of the properties of the II-IV group and being compatible enough with other experimental and theoretical results.

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