This Review highlights basic and transition metal conducting and semiconducting oxides.
We discuss their material and electronic properties with an emphasis on the crystal …

Heterogeneous catalysis, a process in which the reaction of gaseous or liquid chemical
reagents is facilitated at the surface of a solid material, is responsible for the majority of …

Carbon dioxide (CO2) hydrogenation to methanol with H2 produced with renewable energy
represents a promising path for the effective utilization of a major anthropogenic greenhouse …

Monoclinic zirconia has been uncovered as a carrier able to substantially boost the activity
of indium oxide for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Here, electronic, geometric, and …

The group‐III sesquioxides possess material properties that render them interesting for
applications such as high‐power rectifiers and transistors, solar‐blind UV detectors and inter …

Amorphous oxide semiconductor transistors have been a mature technology in display
panels for upward of a decade, and have recently been considered as promising back‐end …

Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) pose a number of serious challenges. In addition to
the pursuit of high-quality single crystals and thin films, their application has to be preceded …

Bulk and surface sensitive x-ray spectroscopic techniques are applied in tandem to show
that the valence band edge for In 2 O 3 is found significantly closer to the bottom of the …

Catalytic conversion of CO2 to liquid fuels or valuable chemicals is an attractive alternative
to geological sequestration. In the present study, we applied density functional theory slab …

In recent years, spectroscopic ellipsometry has been applied extensively to characterize the
optical properties of various materials incorporated into photovoltaic devices. Among many …