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 …

Catalysis by doped oxides

EW McFarland, H Metiu - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Metal oxide catalysts have numerous industrial applications. 1− 7 In addition, oxides
catalyze many important reactions whose conversion or selectivity is too low to be …

Accurate first-principles structures and energies of diversely bonded systems from an efficient density functional

J Sun, RC Remsing, Y Zhang, Z Sun, A Ruzsinszky… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
One atom or molecule binds to another through various types of bond, the strengths of which
range from several meV to several eV. Although some computational methods can provide …

Strongly constrained and appropriately normed semilocal density functional

J Sun, A Ruzsinszky, JP Perdew - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
The ground-state energy, electron density, and related properties of ordinary matter can be
computed efficiently when the exchange-correlation energy as a functional of the density is …

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 …

Electrostatics-based finite-size corrections for first-principles point defect calculations

Y Kumagai, F Oba - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
Finite-size corrections for charged defect supercell calculations typically consist of image-
charge and potential alignment corrections. Regarding the image-charge correction …

Band alignment of semiconductors from density-functional theory and many-body perturbation theory

Y Hinuma, A Grüneis, G Kresse, F Oba - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
The band lineup, or alignment, of semiconductors is investigated via first-principles
calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) and many-body perturbation theory …

Orbital-dependent density functionals: Theory and applications

S Kümmel, L Kronik - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2008 - APS
This review provides a perspective on the use of orbital-dependent functionals, which is
currently considered one of the most promising avenues in modern density-functional …

Accurate prediction of defect properties in density functional supercell calculations

S Lany, A Zunger - Modelling and simulation in materials science …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The theoretical description of defects and impurities in semiconductors is largely based on
density functional theory (DFT) employing supercell models. The literature discussion of …

Screened hybrid density functionals for solid-state chemistry and physics

BG Janesko, TM Henderson… - Physical Chemistry …, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Density functional theory incorporating hybrid exchange–correlation functionals has been
extraordinarily successful in providing accurate, computationally tractable treatments of …