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Monolayer of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), commonly known as "white graphene" is a promising wide bandgap semiconducting material for deep-ultaviolet optoelectronic devices. In this report, the light absorption of a single layer hexagonal…
We explain the nature of the electronic band gap and optical absorption spectrum of Carbon - Boron Nitride (CBN) hybridized monolayers using density functional theory (DFT), GW and Bethe-Salpeter equation calculations. The CBN…
The electronic band structure of V$_2$O$_5$ is calculated using an all-electron quasiparticle self-consistent (QS) $GW$ method, including electron-hole ladder diagrams in the screening of $W$. The optical dielectric function calculated with…
Cubic boron nitride (cBN) is a wide-bandgap polymorph of boron nitride whose optical response remains only partially understood due to the coexistence of indirect electronic transitions and strong exciton-phonon coupling. Using…
A theory of the electronic structure and excitonic absorption spectra of PbS and PbSe nanowires and nanorods in the framework of a four-band effective mass model is presented. Calculations conducted for PbSe show that dielectric contrast…
The dielectric function of heteroepitaxial YBiO$_3$ grown on $a$-Al$_2$O$_3$ single crystals via pulsed laser deposition is determined in the spectral range from 0.03 eV to 4.5 eV by simultaneous modeling of spectroscopic ellipsometry and…
We study the linear optical absorption of bulk semiconductors in the presence of a homogeneous constant (dc) electric field with an approach suitable for including excitonic effects while working with many-band models. The absorption…
We theoretically study absorption by an undoped graphene layer decorated with arrays of small particles. We discuss periodic and random arrays within a common formalism, which predicts a maximum absorption of $50\%$ for suspended graphene…
We studied the electronic structure and optic absorption of phosphorene (monolayer of black phosphorus) under strain. Strain was found to be a powerful tool for the band structure engineering. The in-plane strain in armchair or zigzag…
We theoretically and experimentally investigate the optical absorption properties of heterostructures composed of graphene films and truncated photonic crystals (PCs) in the visible range. The experimental results show that the absorption…
Electroabsorption (EA) measurements can be used to identify the type of excitons contributing to the absorption spectra of semiconductors which have applications in optoelectronics. However, the inferences from the EA measurement greatly…
We use first-principles calculations based on many-body perturbation theory to investigate the near-edge electronic and optical properties of \b{eta}-Ga2O3. The fundamental band gap is indirect, but the minimum direct gap is only 29 meV…
The frequency-dependent conductivity is studied for both the one-dimensional Hubbard model and a model of spinless fermions, using a selection rule, the Bethe ansatz energy eigenstates, and conformal invariance. For densities where the…
Recently, atomically well-defined cove-shaped graphene nanoribbons have been obtained using bottom-up synthesis. These nanoribbons have an optical gap in the visible range of the spectrum which make them candidates for donor materials in…
Extended x-ray absorption fine-structure (EXAFS) data collected in the fluorescence mode are susceptible to an apparent amplitude reduction due to the self-absorption of the fluorescing photon by the sample before it reaches a detector.…
We study theoretically the single-electron triangular zigzag graphene quantum dot in three typical in-plane electric fields. The far-infrared absorption spectra of the dot are calculated by the tight-binding method and then the optical…
We apply the optimal fluctuation method to the calculation of the optical absorption in disordered one-dimensional semiconductors below the fundamental optical gap. We find that a photon energy exists at which the shape of the optimal…
A large number of current and future experiments in neutrino and dark matter detection use the scintillation light from noble elements as a mechanism for measuring energy deposition. The scintillation light from these elements is produced…
We present first-principles calculations of the optical response of monolayer molybdenum disulfide employing the GW-Bethe Salpeter equation (GW-BSE) approach including self-energy, excitonic, and electron-phonon effects. We show that…