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Direct energy bandgap materials are crucial for the efficient optoelectronics devices. Therefore, the investigation of new direct gap materials is important. In the present work, two novel d-metal sulfides Sc2CdS4 and Y2CdS4 compounds are…

Point-contact measurements on the carbon-substituted Mg(B$_{1-x}$C$_x$)$_2$ filament/powder samples directly reveal a retention of the two superconducting energy gaps in the whole doping range from $x = 0$ to $x \approx 0.1$. The large gap…

In$_2$Se$_3$ in the three-dimensional (3D) hexagonal crystal structure with space group $P6_1$ ($\gamma$-In$_2$Se$_3$) has a direct band gap of $\sim$1.8 eV and high absorption coefficient, making it a promising semiconductor material for…

In conventional solar cell semiconductor materials (predominantly Si) photons with energy higher than the band gap initially generate hot electrons and holes, which subsequently cool down to the band edge by phonon emission. Due to the…

Lead-free halide double perovskites are promising stable and non-toxic alternatives to methylammonium lead iodide in the field of photovoltaics. In this context, the most commonly used double perovskite is Cs$_2$AgBiBr$_6$, due to its…

Tellurium allows attaining heavy n-type doping levels in GaAs, which is suited to achieve very low contact resistivities in solar cells. Besides, it modifies the energy bandgap of MOVPE-grown GaInP by reducing the group-III sublattice…

Photoconductive devices based on ultra-wide-bandgap (UWBG) materials offer a promising pathway toward compact, high-voltage (HV) optoelectronic and optical sensing in harsh environments. In this Letter, we report field-tunable nonlinear…

In a recent Physical Review Letter Kortus et al. claim that the observed decrease of $T_c$ in Al and C doped MgB$_2$ samples is mainly due to the band filling by the electron doping but for a fuller understanding of the different behavior…

Ferroelectrics with suitable band gaps have recently attracted attention as candidate solar absorbing materials for photovoltaics. The inversion symmetry breaking may promote the separation of photo-excited carriers and allow voltages…

We investigated the current-voltage characteristic of InAs/GaAs quantum dot intermediate band solar cells (QD IBSCs) with different n-type doping density in the QD layer. The n-type doping evidently increases the open circuit voltage,…

All inorganic halide perovskites offer promising optoelectronic properties at low cost, but their structural softness and thermal instability limit applications. Density functional theory using the FP-LAPW method (WIEN2k) was used to study…

In this study, the structural, electronic and optical properties of Pb doped rutile SnO$_2$ were investigated using the range separated hybrid exchange-correlation functional method. In the calculations, LDA functional was used instead of…

We measured the in-plane optical conductivity of a nearly optimally doped (Ba,K)Fe2As2 single crystal with Tc = 39.1 K. Upon entering the superconducting state the optical conductivity below ~20 meV vanishes, strongly suggesting a fully…

Rare earth doping is an effective way to convert chemically stable oxides into multifunctional materials with coupled electronic, optical, and magnetic properties. We present first principles calculations of pristine and Tm3+ doped Ca2SnO4…

Cu$_3$SbSe$_4$ is a promising thermoelectric material due to high thermopower ($>400\ \mu$V/K) at 300K and higher. Although it has a simple crystal structure derived from zinc blende structure, previous work has shown that the physics of…

Doping cadmium oxide with rare earth (RE) elements is a way to control the band gap and enhance carrier concentration and mobility. This work presents how one of REs, europium, impacts performance of CdO/Si diode. The samples were grown…

The electronic properties of ABX3 (A = Cs, CH3NH3, NH2CHNH2; B = Sn, Pb; X = Cl, Br, I) type compounds in the cubic phase are systematically studied using the first-principles calculations. We find that these compounds have direct band gaps…

Hybrid heterostructure based phototransistors are attractive owing to their high gain induced by photogating effect. However, the absence of an in-plane built-in electric field in the single channel layer transistor results in a relatively…

Sulphurization processes in Cu(In,Ga)Se$_2$ thin-film solar cells has been intensively studied in the last decade as a viable alternative to the existing Ga-grading. The main advantage of using S grading is that by substituting Se with S we…

The effects of chlorine (Cl) and zinc (Zn) co-doping on the electronic structure and optical properties of the zinc blende ({\gamma}) phase of copper iodide ({\gamma}-CuI) scintillator material are investigated by using first-principles…