Publications

The following is list of papers that have been published, or submitted for publication, as a result of the research carried out in this thesis.

• Density functional calculations of semiconductor properties using a semi-empirical exchange-correlation functional
  Phys. Rev. B 63, 115206 (2001)
  Philip P. Rushton, Stewart J. Clark and David J. Tozer
  
  
  
• Description of exchange and correlation in the strongly inhomogeneous electron gas using a non-local density functional
  Phys. Rev. B 65, 193106 (2002)
  Philip P. Rushton, David J. Tozer and Stewart J. Clark
  
  
  
• Non-local density functional description of exchange and correlation in silicon
  Phys. Rev. B 65, 235202 (2002)
  Philip P. Rushton, David J. Tozer and Stewart J. Clark
  
  
  
• Comparison of exchange-correlation functionals in the strongly confined electron gas
  Submitted to Phys. Rev. B
  Philip P. Rushton and Stewart J. Clark
  
  
  
• Demonstrating the effectiveness of a non-local density functional description of exchange and correlation
  To appear in, Recent Progress in Computational Chemistry and Physics
  Philip P. Rushton and Stewart J. Clark