[HTML][HTML] Conductive nitrides: Growth principles, optical and electronic properties, and their perspectives in photonics and plasmonics

P Patsalas, N Kalfagiannis, S Kassavetis… - Materials Science and …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The nitrides of most of the group IVb-Vb-VIb transition metals (TiN, ZrN, HfN, VN, NbN, TaN,
MoN, WN) constitute the unique category of conductive ceramics. Having substantial …

A review of the intrinsic ductility and toughness of hard transition-metal nitride alloy thin films

H Kindlund, DG Sangiovanni, I Petrov, JE Greene… - Thin Solid Films, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Over the past decades, enormous effort has been dedicated to enhancing the hardness of
refractory ceramic materials. Typically, however, an increase in hardness is accompanied by …

Tracing the recorded history of thin-film sputter deposition: From the 1800s to 2017

JE Greene - Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 2017‏ - pubs.aip.org
The use of thin films to enhance the physical and chemical properties of materials is
ubiquitous in today's world. Examples are shown in Fig. 1: copper metallization layers for …

Electroreduction of N2 to Ammonia at Ambient Conditions on Mononitrides of Zr, Nb, Cr, and V: A DFT Guide for Experiments

Y Abghoui, AL Garden, JG Howalt, T Vegge… - Acs …, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
A rapid and facile reduction of nitrogen to achieve sustainable and energy-efficient
production of ammonia is critical to its use as a hydrogen storage medium, chemical …

Valence electron concentration as an indicator for mechanical properties in rocksalt structure nitrides, carbides and carbonitrides

K Balasubramanian, SV Khare, D Gall - Acta Materialia, 2018‏ - Elsevier
First-principles calculations are employed to determine the mechanical properties of rock-
salt structure binary and ternary transition metal nitrides, carbides, and carbonitrides from …

Thermodynamic routes to novel metastable nitrogen-rich nitrides

W Sun, A Holder, B Orvañanos, E Arca… - Chemistry of …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Compared to oxides, the nitrides are relatively unexplored, making them a promising
chemical space for novel materials discovery. Of particular interest are nitrogen-rich nitrides …

Transition-metal-nitride-based thin films as novel energy harvesting materials

P Eklund, S Kerdsongpanya, B Alling - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2016‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The last few years have seen a rise in the interest in early transition-metal and rare-earth
nitrides, primarily based on ScN and CrN, for energy harvesting by thermoelectricity and …

Energetics of point defects in rocksalt structure transition metal nitrides: Thermodynamic reasons for deviations from stoichiometry

K Balasubramanian, SV Khare, D Gall - Acta Materialia, 2018‏ - Elsevier
First principle calculations of point defect formation energies in group 3–6 transition metal
(Me) nitrides MeN x are employed to explain the thermodynamic reasons for the large …

[HTML][HTML] Strain-stabilized Al-containing high-entropy sublattice nitrides

A Kretschmer, D Holec, K Yalamanchili, H Rudigier… - Acta materialia, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The impact of configurational entropy, enthalpy, and strain energy on the phase stability of
high-entropy materials has not yet been investigated quantitatively. We used ab-initio …

Hot carrier dynamics in plasmonic transition metal nitrides

A Habib, F Florio, R Sundararaman - Journal of Optics, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Extraction of non-equilibrium hot carriers generated by plasmon decay in metallic nano-
structures is an increasingly exciting prospect for utilizing plasmonic losses, but the search …