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Cu(In,Ga)Se2 based solar cells exceed power conversion efficiencies of 23 %. Yet, the fill factor of these solar cells, with best values around 80 %, is relatively low (Si reaches 84.9%) mostly due to diode factors greater than one.…
In this paper, the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of Zinc-blende Ga1-xVxSb compounds, with x from dilute doping situation to extreme doping limiting, were systematically investigated by first-principles calculations. V atoms…
Anion substitution with bismuth (Bi) in III-V semiconductors is an effective method for experimental engineering of the band gap Eg at low Bi concentrations, in particular in gallium arsenide (GaAs). The inverse Bi-concentration dependence…
Hyperdoped metastable sulfur atoms endow crystalline silicon with a strong sub-bandgap light absorption. In order to explore such metastable states, we develop a new high-throughput first-principles calculation method to search for all of…
Strong nonradiative recombination has been observed in quasi-one-dimensional antimony selenide, which runs counter to the simple intuition that claims high defect tolerance exists in semiconductors with antibonding state in the valence band…
Defects in halide perovskites play an essential role in determining the efficiency and stability of the resulting optoelectronic devices. Here, we present a systematic study of intrinsic point defects in six primary metal halide…
Several approaches have been used to investigate the impact of Nitrogen (N) on the electronic structure of GaAs$_{1-x}$N$_{x}$ alloys, however, there is no agreement between theory and experiments about the importance of the different N…
As titanium is a highly utilized metal for structural light-weighting, its phases, transformation pathways (transition states), and structures have scientific and industrial importance. Impurities, pressure, and temperature control the…
Electronic devices are extremely sensitive to defects in their constituent semiconductors, but locating electronic point defects in bulk semiconductors has previously been impossible. Here we apply scanning transmission electron microscopy…
InAs/GaSb and similar materials systems have generated great interest as a heterojunction for tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs) due to favorable band alignment. However, little is currently understood about how such TFETs are affected…
Point defects in crystalline materials often occur in multiple charge states. Although many experimental methods to study and explore point defects are available, techniques to explore the non-equilibrium dynamics of the charge states of…
We study the influence of main compensating defects: As antisites and Mn interstitials, known to occur in GaMnAs ferromagnetic semiconductor, on its structural properties. Our experimental results show that there is a balance between Mn…
Metastable alloys, such as $\beta$-phase titanium (Ti) alloys with a body-centered cubic (BCC) lattice, can exhibit exceptional mechanical properties through the interplay of multiple deformation mechanisms -- diffusionless phase…
Although the phase of water has extensively investigated whether there exists a defect distorting only locally the structure still under debate. Here we report a localized 5775 defect phase presented in the double layer ice on the Au (111)…
We develop an atomistic, nearest-neighbor sp3s* tight-binding Hamiltonian to investigate the electronic structure of dilute bismide alloys of GaP and GaAs. Using this model we calculate that the incorporation of dilute concentrations of Bi…
In {\delta}-Ag2/3V2O5 with charge degrees of freedom in V, it is known that the charge ordering state and physical properties of V that appear at low temperatures depend strongly on the ordering state of Ag. In this study, we focused on the…
The presence of defects in the narrow-gap semiconductors GaSb and InSb affects their dopability and hence applicability for a range of optoelectronic applications. Here, we report hybrid density functional theory based calculations of the…
Ion implantation is a non-equilibrium doping technique which introduces impurity atoms into a solid regardless of thermodynamic considerations. The formation of metastable alloys above the solubility limit, minimized contribution of lateral…
Point defects in semiconductors offer a promising platform for advancing quantum technologies due to their localized energy states and controllable spin properties. Prior research has focused on a limited set of defects within materials…
In an ideal InAs/GaSb bilayer of appropriate dimension in-plane electron and hole bands overlap and hybridize, and a topologically non-trivial, or quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator, phase is predicted to exist. The in-plane dispersion's…