A review of band structure and material properties of transparent conducting and semiconducting oxides: Ga2O3, Al2O3, In2O3, ZnO, SnO2, CdO, NiO, CuO, and …

JA Spencer, AL Mock, AG Jacobs, M Schubert… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This Review highlights basic and transition metal conducting and semiconducting oxides.
We discuss their material and electronic properties with an emphasis on the crystal …

First-principles calculations for point defects in solids

C Freysoldt, B Grabowski, T Hickel, J Neugebauer… - Reviews of modern …, 2014 - APS
Point defects and impurities strongly affect the physical properties of materials and have a
decisive impact on their performance in applications. First-principles calculations have …

In situ formation of ZnOx species for efficient propane dehydrogenation

D Zhao, X Tian, DE Doronkin, S Han, VA Kondratenko… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Propane dehydrogenation (PDH) to propene is an important alternative to oil-based
cracking processes, to produce this industrially important platform chemical,. The …

Fundamentals of zinc oxide as a semiconductor

A Janotti, CG Van de Walle - Reports on progress in physics, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past ten years we have witnessed a revival of, and subsequent rapid expansion in, the
research on zinc oxide (ZnO) as a semiconductor. Being initially considered as a substrate …

Ab‐initio simulations of materials using VASP: Density‐functional theory and beyond

J Hafner - Journal of computational chemistry, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
During the past decade, computer simulations based on a quantum‐mechanical description
of the interactions between electrons and between electrons and atomic nuclei have …

Native point defects in ZnO

A Janotti, CG Van de Walle - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2007 - APS
We have performed a comprehensive first-principles investigation of native point defects in
ZnO based on density functional theory within the local density approximation (LDA) as well …

Facet Effect of Single-Crystalline Ag3PO4 Sub-microcrystals on Photocatalytic Properties

Y Bi, S Ouyang, N Umezawa, J Cao… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We recently reported that Ag3PO4 exhibits excellent photooxidative capabilities for O2
evolution from water and organic dye decomposition under visible-light irradiation. However …

Assessment of correction methods for the band-gap problem and for finite-size effects in supercell defect calculations: Case studies for ZnO and GaAs

S Lany, A Zunger - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2008 - APS
Contemporary theories of defects and impurities in semiconductors rely to a large extent on
supercell calculations within density-functional theory using the approximate local-density …

Mechanical properties of hybrid inorganic–organic framework materials: establishing fundamental structure–property relationships

JC Tan, AK Cheetham - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The mechanical properties of hybrid framework materials, including both nanoporous metal–
organic frameworks (MOFs) and dense inorganic–organic frameworks, are discussed in this …

Computationally predicted energies and properties of defects in GaN

JL Lyons, CG Van de Walle - NPJ Computational Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Recent developments in theoretical techniques have significantly improved the predictive
power of density-functional-based calculations. In this review, we discuss how such …