2D materials and heterostructures for photocatalytic water-splitting: A theoretical perspective

G Wang, J Chang, W Tang, W **e… - Journal of Physics D …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Photocatalytic water-splitting for hydrogen generation by sunlight provides a new route to
address energy and environmental problems. In recent years, tremendous efforts have been …

Quantum and dielectric confinement effects in lower-dimensional hybrid perovskite semiconductors

C Katan, N Mercier, J Even - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Hybrid halide perovskites are now superstar materials leading the field of low-cost thin film
photovoltaics technologies. Following the surge for more efficient and stable 3D bulk alloys …

Intralayer charge-transfer moiré excitons in van der Waals superlattices

MH Naik, EC Regan, Z Zhang, YH Chan, Z Li, D Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Moiré patterns of transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers have proved to be an ideal
platform on which to host unusual correlated electronic phases, emerging magnetism and …

Giant second-harmonic generation in ferroelectric NbOI2

I Abdelwahab, B Tilmann, Y Wu, D Giovanni… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Implementing nonlinear optical components in nanoscale photonic devices is challenged by
phase-matching conditions requiring thicknesses in the order of hundreds of wavelengths …

[HTML][HTML] WIEN2k: An APW+ lo program for calculating the properties of solids

P Blaha, K Schwarz, F Tran, R Laskowski… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The WIEN2k program is based on the augmented plane wave plus local orbitals (APW+ lo)
method to solve the Kohn–Sham equations of density functional theory. The APW+ lo …

Electron–phonon physics from first principles using the EPW code

H Lee, S Poncé, K Bushick, S Ha**azar… - npj Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
EPW is an open-source software for ab initio calculations of electron–phonon interactions
and related materials properties. The code combines density functional perturbation theory …

Interlayer electronic coupling on demand in a 2D magnetic semiconductor

NP Wilson, K Lee, J Cenker, K **e, AH Dismukes… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
When monolayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are stacked into van der Waals
structures, interlayer electronic coupling can introduce entirely new properties, as …

Optical absorption of interlayer excitons in transition-metal dichalcogenide heterostructures

E Barré, O Karni, E Liu, AL O'Beirne, X Chen… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Interlayer excitons, electron-hole pairs bound across two monolayer van der Waals
semiconductors, offer promising electrical tunability and localizability. Because such …

Structure of the moiré exciton captured by imaging its electron and hole

O Karni, E Barré, V Pareek, JD Georgaras, MKL Man… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Interlayer excitons (ILXs)—electron–hole pairs bound across two atomically thin
layered semiconductors—have emerged as attractive platforms to study exciton …

Pentagon-based 2D materials: Classification, properties and applications

Y Shen, Q Wang - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Since penta-graphene (PG), a two-dimensional (2D) carbon allotrope exclusively
composed of five-membered rings, was proposed in 2015, a great deal of effort has been …