Recent developments, advances and strategies in heterogeneous photocatalysts for water splitting

M Sohail, S Rauf, M Irfan, A Hayat, MM Alghamdi… - Nanoscale …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Photocatalytic water splitting (PWS) is an up-and-coming technology for generating
sustainable fuel using light energy. Significant progress has been made in the develo** of …

Recent developments in the ABINIT software package

X Gonze, F Jollet, FA Araujo, D Adams… - Computer physics …, 2016 - Elsevier
ABINIT is a package whose main program allows one to find the total energy, charge
density, electronic structure and many other properties of systems made of electrons and …

Photocatalytic water splitting—the untamed dream: a review of recent advances

T Jafari, E Moharreri, AS Amin, R Miao, W Song… - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Photocatalytic water splitting using sunlight is a promising technology capable of providing
high energy yield without pollutant byproducts. Herein, we review various aspects of this …

Design and exploration of semiconductors from first principles: A review of recent advances

F Oba, Y Kumagai - Applied Physics Express, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent first-principles approaches to semiconductors are reviewed, with an emphasis on
theoretical insight into emerging materials and in silico exploration of as-yet-unreported …

The speed limit of optoelectronics

M Ossiander, K Golyari, K Scharl, L Lehnert… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Light-field driven charge motion links semiconductor technology to electric fields with
attosecond temporal control. Motivated by ultimate-speed electron-based signal processing …

Right band gaps for the right reason at low computational cost with a meta-GGA

T Lebeda, T Aschebrock, J Sun, L Leppert… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
In density functional theory, traditional explicit density functionals such as the local density
approximation and generalized gradient approximations cannot accurately predict the band …

Polarization-state-resolved high-harmonic spectroscopy of solids

N Klemke, N Tancogne-Dejean, GM Rossi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Attosecond metrology sensitive to sub-optical-cycle electronic and structural dynamics is
opening up new avenues for ultrafast spectroscopy of condensed matter. Using intense …

Nonempirical dielectric-dependent hybrid functional with range separation for semiconductors and insulators

W Chen, G Miceli, GM Rignanese, A Pasquarello - Physical Review Materials, 2018 - APS
We present a general scheme of range-separated hybrid functionals in which the mixing
parameters of Fock exchange are fully nonempirical and determined solely from the …

Tailoring the electron and hole Landé factors in lead halide perovskite nanocrystals by quantum confinement and halide exchange

MO Nestoklon, E Kirstein, DR Yakovlev, EA Zhukov… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
The tunability of the optical properties of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals makes them
highly appealing for applications. Halide anion exchange and quantum confinement enable …

Accurate electronic and optical properties of hexagonal germanium for optoelectronic applications

C Rödl, J Furthmüller, JR Suckert, V Armuzza… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
High-quality defect-free lonsdaleite Si and Ge can now be grown on hexagonal nanowire
substrates. These hexagonal phases of group-IV semiconductors have been predicted to …