Functional dynamics in framework materials

S Krause, JV Milić - Communications Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Dynamic crystalline materials have emerged as a unique category of condensed phase
matter that combines crystalline lattice with components that display dynamic behavior in the …

Local structure in crystalline, glass and melt states of a hybrid metal halide perovskite

A Singh, D Dayton, DM Ladd, G Reuveni… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The pursuit of structure–property relationships in crystalline metal halide perovskites (MHPs)
has yielded an unprecedented combination of advantageous characteristics for wide …

The Critical Role of Anharmonic Lattice Dynamics for Macroscopic Properties of the Visible Light Absorbing Nitride Semiconductor CuTaN2

FS Hegner, A Cohen, SS Rudel… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ternary nitride semiconductors are rapidly emerging as a promising class of materials for
energy conversion applications, offering an appealing combination of strong light absorption …

Contrasting Ultra-Low Frequency Raman and Infrared Modes in Emerging Metal Halides for Photovoltaics

VJY Lim, M Righetto, S Yan, JB Patel, T Siday… - ACS Energy …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Lattice dynamics are critical to photovoltaic material performance, governing dynamic
disorder, hot-carrier cooling, charge-carrier recombination, and transport. Soft metal-halide …

Polarizability models for simulations of finite temperature Raman spectra from machine learning molecular dynamics

E Berger, HP Komsa - Physical Review Materials, 2024 - APS
Raman spectroscopy is a powerful and nondestructive method that is widely used to study
the vibrational properties of solids or molecules. Simulations of finite-temperature Raman …

Disentangling the effects of structure and lone-pair electrons in the lattice dynamics of halide perovskites

S Caicedo-Dávila, A Cohen, SG Motti, M Isobe… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Halide perovskites show great optoelectronic performance, but their favorable properties are
paired with unusually strong anharmonicity. It was proposed that this combination derives …

Wigner Gaussian dynamics: Simulating the anharmonic and quantum ionic motion

A Siciliano, L Monacelli, G Caldarelli, F Mauri - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The atomic motion controls important properties of materials, such as thermal transport,
phase transitions, and vibrational spectra. However, simulating the ionic dynamics is …

Mechanistic View on the Order–Disorder Phase Transition in Amphidynamic Crystals

M Asher, M Bardini, L Catalano, R Jouclas… - The journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We combine temperature-dependent low-frequency Raman measurements and first-
principles calculations to obtain a mechanistic understanding of the order–disorder phase …

Differing vibrational properties of halide and chalcogenide perovskite semiconductors and impact on optoelectronic performance

K Ye, M Menahem, T Salzillo, F Knoop, B Zhao… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
We report a comparative study of temperature-dependent photoluminescence and structural
dynamics of two perovskite semiconductors, the chalcogenide BaZrS 3 and the halide Cs Pb …

Effect of Overdamped Phonons on the Fundamental Band Gap of Perovskites

X Zhu, DA Egger - Physical Review Letters, 2025 - APS
Anharmonic atomic motions can strongly influence the optoelectronic properties of materials
but how these effects are connected to the underlying phonon band structure is not …