Development of semiconducting ScN

B Biswas, B Saha - Physical Review Materials, 2019 - APS
Since the 1960s advances in electronic and optoelectronic device technologies have been
primarily orchestrated by III-V semiconductors, which have led to an age of consumer …

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 …

A systematic first‐principles investigation of the structural, electronic, mechanical, optical, and thermodynamic properties of Half‐Heusler ANiX (A Sc, Ti, Y, Zr, Hf; X …

M Tarekuzzaman, MH Ishraq… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper is the first to look at the structural, electronic, mechanical, optical, and
thermodynamic properties of the ANiX (A Sc, Ti, Y, Zr, Hf; X Bi, Sn) half‐Heusler (HH) …

Hole Trap** by Iodine Interstitial Defects Decreases Free Carrier Losses in Perovskite Solar Cells: A Time-Domain Ab Initio Study

W Li, J Liu, FQ Bai, HX Zhang, OV Prezhdo - ACS Energy Letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
We present a time-domain ab initio study of electron–hole recombination in pristine MAPbI3,
and compare it to the trap mediated recombination in MAPbI3 with the iodine interstitial …

DFT study on the structural, mechanical, electronic, optical and thermodynamic properties of recently synthesized MAX Phase compounds A3InC2 (A= Zr, Hf) under …

R Khatun, A Rahman, DC Roy, AA Khatun… - Materials Today …, 2024 - Elsevier
Very recently the In-based MAX phases A 3 InC 2 (A= Zr, Hf) have received great attraction
for their exceptional physical properties. Here, the physical properties of A 3 InC 2 (A= Zr, Hf) …

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 …

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 …

ScGaN and ScAlN: emerging nitride materials

MA Moram, S Zhang - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This review addresses the recent development and future prospects for Sc-based III-nitride
alloys in energy-efficient device applications. Wurtzite-structure ScAlN and ScGaN alloys are …

First-principles calculations of thermoelectric transport properties of quaternary and ternary bulk chalcogenide crystals

S Hasan, S San, K Baral, N Li, P Rulis, WY Ching - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chalcogenide crystals have a wide range of applications, especially as thermoelectric
materials for energy conversion. Thermoelectric materials can be used to generate an …

Optical and transport measurement and first-principles determination of the ScN band gap

R Deng, BD Ozsdolay, PY Zheng, SV Khare, D Gall - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
The electronic structure of scandium nitride is determined by combining results from optical
and electronic transport measurements with first-principles calculations. Hybrid functional …