Accumulation of deep traps at grain boundaries in halide perovskites

JS Park, J Calbo, YK Jung, LD Whalley… - ACS Energy …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The behavior of grain boundaries in polycrystalline halide perovskite solar cells remains
poorly understood. Whereas theoretical studies indicate that grain boundaries are not active …

[HTML][HTML] Grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials for energy applications: First principles modeling and electron microscopy

J Quirk, M Rothmann, W Li, D Abou-Ras… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Polycrystalline materials are ubiquitous in technology, and grain boundaries have long been
known to affect materials properties and performance. First principles materials modeling …

Defect formation and healing at grain boundaries in lead-halide perovskites

W Kaiser, K Hussain, A Singh, AA Alothman… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Polycrystalline perovskite solar cells show high power conversion efficiencies despite the
presence of grain boundaries (GBs). The benign nature of GBs on the electronic properties …

grain boundary faceting–roughening phenomena

BB Straumal, OA Kogtenkova, AS Gornakova… - Journal of materials …, 2016 - Springer
Similar to free surfaces, the grain boundaries (GBs) in metals, semiconductors and
insulators can contain flat (faceted) and curved (rough) portions. In the majority of cases …

Five-parameter intervariant boundary characterization of martensite in commercially pure titanium

E Farabi, PD Hodgson, GS Rohrer, H Beladi - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
The intervariant boundary characteristics of a commercially pure Ti microstructure formed by
the β→ α martensitic phase transformation were described according to the crystallography …

[HTML][HTML] High-temperature microstructural stability of pure Ni fabricated by laser powder bed fusion using Gaussian and flat-top beam profiles

DE Jodi, T Kitashima, A Singh, M Watanabe - Materials Characterization, 2023 - Elsevier
The effects of annealing on the microstructure of pure Ni fabricated by laser powder bed
fusion (LPBF) were investigated using two different beam profiles: Gaussian and flat-top …

Triple junction excess energy in polycrystalline metals

N Tuchinda, CA Schuh - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
The energetics of triple lines are often negligible in polycrystalline systems, but may play a
significant role in the finest nanocrystals, and in fact lower the excess defect energies of …

Review of grain boundary complexion engineering: Know your boundaries

AR Krause, PR Cantwell, CJ Marvel… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Grain boundary structure‐property relationships influence bulk performance and, therefore,
are an important criterion in materials design. Materials scientists can generate different …

[HTML][HTML] Grain boundary network evolution in electron-beam powder bed fusion nickel-based superalloy Inconel 738

M Luo, X Liao, SP Ringer, S Primig… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM) of alloys has attracted much attention in recent years for
making geometrically complex engineering parts owing to its unique benefits, such as high …

[HTML][HTML] Five-parameter characterization of intervariant boundaries in additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V

N Haghdadi, R DeMott, PL Stephenson, XZ Liao… - Materials & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing has emerged as a promising route to fabricate complex-shaped Ti-
6Al-4V parts. The microstructural evolution and variant selection across builds in response …