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Hybrid perovskite thin films have demonstrated impressive performance for solar energy conversion and optoelectronic applications. However, further progress will benefit from a better knowledge of the intrinsic photophysics of materials.…
Degradation of co-evaporated CH3NH3PbI3 thin films was investigated with x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and x-ray diffraction (XRD) as the films were subjected to exposure of oxygen, dry air, ambient, or H2O. The co-evaporated thin…
Owing high conductivity in microcrystalline thin-films, CsSnI3 perovskite is a promising semiconductor for thermoelectrics and optoelectronics. Rapid oxidation of thin-film and intrinsic lattice strain hinders stabilization of the device…
We report the first doping of crystalline methylammonium lead bromide (MAPbBr$_3$) perovskite thin-films with CdSe/CdZnS core/shell quantum dots (QDs), using a soft-chemistry method that preserves their high quantum yield and other…
We combined photoelemission spectroscopy with first-principle calculations to investigate structural and electronic properties of SrTiO$_{3}$ doped with Ni impurities. In SrTiO$_{3}$ polycrystalline thin films, grown by magnetron…
Fe4N is a well-known anti-perovskite compound exhibiting high magnetization, high chemical stability, low coercivity, high Curie temperature, and high spin-polarization ratio. Therefore, it is a viable candidate for applications in…
Methylammonium lead halide perovskites have been developed as highly promising materials to fabricate efficient solar cells in the past few years. The real impact to energy applications relies on the understanding and controlling of the…
Metal halide perovskites are of great interest for application in semitransparent solar cells due to their tunable bandgap and high performance. However, fabricating high-efficiency perovskite semitransparent devices with high average…
The presence of a non-optically active polymorph (yellow-phase) competing with the optically active polymorph (black $\gamma$-phase) at room temperature in CsSnI3 and the susceptibility of Sn to oxidation, represent two of the biggest…
We report calculations of the electronic structure and optical properties of doped $n$-type perovskite BaSnO3 and layered perovskites. While doped BaSnO$_3$ retains its transparency for energies below the valence to conduction band onset,…
Metal halide perovskites are promising materials for optoelectronic applications owing to their outstanding optical and electronic properties. Among them, all-inorganic perovskites such as CsPbBr$_3$ offer superior thermal and chemical…
In this work Ba(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3_3$ thin films were prepared by the polymeric precursors method. A detailed description of the procedure to obtain the precursors and deposition was presented. High quality polycrystalline films of…
BaZrS3 is a prototypical chalcogenide perovskite, an emerging class of unconventional semiconductor. Recent results on powder samples reveal that it is a material with a direct band gap of 1.7-1.8 eV, a very strong light-matter interaction,…
Small cations such as guanidinium and cesium can act as templating cations to form low dimensional phases (2D, 1D, 0D) in the case of excess of organic halides. However, such phases with the widely used formamidinium (FA+) cation have not…
Unlike proper ferroelectricity, the improper ferroelectricity in multiferroic rare-earth manganites h-ReMnO3 (Re=La-Lu,Y,Sc) thin films features a unique geometric distortion and stays immune to the depolarizing field in the ultra-thin…
The structural, optical and electrical properties of spray deposited antimony (Sb) doped tin oxide (SnO2) thin films, prepared from SnCl4 precursor, have been studied as a function of antimony doping concentration. The doping concentration…
Structural stability, electronic structure and optical properties of CH3NH3BaI3 hybrid perovskite is examined both from theory as well as experiment. Solution-processed thin films of CH3NH3BaI3 exhibited a high band gap of approximately…
Antiperovskite nitrides (X3AN) are the structural analogues to perovskite oxides, while their epitaxial growth and electronic properties remain largely unexplored. We report the successful synthesis of Ni3InN thin films on substrates with…
Transparent electronic materials are increasingly in demand for a variety of optoelectronic applications. BaSnO3 is a semiconducting oxide with a large band gap of more than 3.1 eV. Recently, we discovered that La doped BaSnO3 exhibits…
BaSnO_{3}, a high mobility perovskite oxide, is an attractive material for oxide-based electronic devices. However, in addition to low-field mobility, high-field transport properties such as the saturation velocity of carriers play a major…