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In the present work, we study the structural, electronic and optical properties of Sodium Based Cubic Fluoro-perovskites: NaBF$_3$ (B= Ca, Mg or Zn) using DFT and TDDFT methods. We performed the density functional theory DFT calculations…
The great tunability of the properties of halide perovskites presents new opportunities for optoelectronic applications as well as significant challenges associated with exploring combinatorial chemical spaces. In this work, we develop a…
The phase transition behaviour of PbTiO3 and BaTiO3 under (111) epitaxial strain is investigated using density-functional theory calculations. From tensile strains of +0.015 to compressive strains of -0.015, PbTiO3 undergoes phase…
The Mott-insulating distorted perovskite SmTiO$_3$, doped with a single SrO layer in a quantum-well architecture is studied by the combination of density functional theory with dynamical mean-field theory. A rich correlated electronic…
We investigate the electronic properties of the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface using density functional theory. In contrast to previous studies, which relied on (semi-)local functionals and the GGA+U method, we here use a recently developed hybrid…
We find novel polar orders that yield electron (e-) and hole (h+) gas and depend on surface terminations, using density functional theory (DFT) that, unlike existing reports, relaxed all the ion positions of ATiO3 having spontaneous…
According to x-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements, PbTiO$_3$ undergoes a phase transition from a tetragonal ferroelectric (FE) phase to a cubic paraelectric phase at 763 K. However, x-ray absorption fine-structure (XAFS) measurements…
The optical and electronic properties of crystalline Li2TeO3, which is a tellurite glass, is studied in the framework of density functional theory (DFT) implemented software SIESTA. The material has monoclinic symmetrized structure and the…
Solid solutions of (1-x)LaFeO3-(x)PbTiO3 (0<x<1) have been prepared by conventional solid-state reaction. These complex perovskites have been studied by means of X-ray (XRPD) and neutron powder (NPD) diffraction, complemented with…
We introduce an open-source, fully atomistic second-principles interatomic potential for lead titanate (PbTiO3), a benchmark ferroelectric material known for its strong polarization and hightemperature phase transitions. While density…
We have carried out a density functional theory study on the structures of DMSO clusters and analysed the structure and their stability using molecular electrostatic potential and quantum theory of atoms-in-molecules (QTAIM). The ground…
In the development of highly efficient photovoltaic cells, solid perovskite systems have demonstrated unprecedented promise, with the figure of merit exceeding nineteen percent of efficiency. In this paper, we investigate the optical and…
A comprehensive study of the structural, electronic, and optical properties of lead-free perovskites has been carried out by means of first principles method based on DFT. The calculations are performed for the compound of the type A2BX6…
Phonon spectra of cubic rubidium niobate and rubidium tantalate with the perovskite structure are calculated from first principles within the density functional theory. Based on the analysis of unstable modes in the phonon spectra, the…
In this work we use density functional theory (DFT) to investigate the influence of semi-local exchange and correlation effects on the electronic and optical properties of zinc oxide. We find that the inclusion of such effects using the…
We report on optical properties of various polymorphs of hafnia predicted within the framework of density functional theory. The full potential linearised augmented plane wave method was employed together with the Tran-Blaha modified…
The bandgap and band bowing parameter of semiconductor alloys are calculated with a fast and realistic approach. The method is a dielectric scaling approximation that is based on a scissor approximation. It adds an energy shift to the…
Distinct shortcomings of individual halide perovskites for solar applications, such as restricted range of band gaps, propensity of ABX3 to decompose into AX+BX2, or oxidation of 2ABX3 into A2BX6 have led to the need to consider alloys of…
Since perovskite solar cells have attracted a lot of attentions over the past years, the enhancement of their optical absorption and current density are among the basic coming challenges. For this reason, first, we have studied structural…
The stability, electronic structure, optical and thermoelectric properties of Te-doped BaTiO3 are investigated by first-principal calculation based on the density functional theory and Boltzmann transport theory implemented in WIEN2K and…