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Combination of electrical conductivity and optical transparency in the same material -- known to be a prerogative of only a few oxides of post-transition metals, such as In, Sn, Zn and Cd -- manifests itself in a distinctive band structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Medvedeva

Transparent Conductive Oxides (TCOs) are a class of materials that combine high optical transparency with high electrical conductivity. This property makes them uniquely appealing as transparent-conductive electrodes in solar cells and…

The electronic properties of single- and multi-cation transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) are investigated using first-principles density functional approach. A detailed comparison of the electronic band structure of stoichiometric and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Julia E. Medvedeva , Chaminda L. Hettiarachchi

Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) are essential to many technologies including solar cells and transparent electronics. The search for high performance n- or p-type TCOs has mainly focused on materials offering transport through band…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-19 Guillaume Brunin , Gian-Marco Rignanese , Geoffroy Hautier

Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs), in general, are degenerated semiconductors with large electronic band-gap. They have been widely used for display screens, optoelectronic, photonic, and photovoltaic devices due to their unique dual…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 Shi Qiang Li , Leonidas E. Ocola , Robert P. H. Chang

Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) represent a remarkable class of materials that possess both excellent electrical conductivity and high optical transparency, which are typically considered mutually exclusive in traditional materials. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-22 Jarnail Singh , Pankaj Bhardwaj

Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) play an essential role in modern optoelectronic devices through their combination of electrical conductivity and optical transparency. We review recent progress in our understanding of multi-component…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-18 Aron Walsh , Juarez L. F. Da Silva , Su-Huai Wei

The development of high performance transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) is critical to many technologies from transparent electronics to solar cells. While n-type TCOs are present in many devices, current p-type TCOs are not largely…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 Geoffroy Hautier , Anna Miglio , Gerbrand Ceder , Gian-Marco Rignanese , Xavier Gonze

Transparent conductors (TC's) combine the usually contraindicated properties of electrical conductivity with optical transparency and are generally made by starting with a transparent insulator and making it conductive via heavy doping, an…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-01 Xiuwen Zhang , Lijun Zhang , John D. Perkins , Alex Zunger

Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) are central to optoelectronic technologies, yet their design is often guided by popular figures of merit that are disconnected from the electrical requirement of actual devices. As a result, widely used…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Amit Cohen , Lior Kornblum

Wide band gap semiconductors are essential for today's electronic devices and energy applications due to their high optical transparency, as well as controllable carrier concentration and electrical conductivity. There are many categories…

Transparent conducting oxides (TCO) are emerging as possible alternative constituent materials to replace noble metals such as silver and gold for low-loss plasmonic and metamaterial (MMs) applications in the near infrared (NIR) regime. The…

First-principles calculations of the mayenite-based oxide, [Ca12Al14O32]{2+}(2e-), reveal the mechanism responsible for its high conductivity. A detailed comparison of the electronic and optical properties of this material with those of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 J. E. Medvedeva , A. J. Freeman

Transparent Conductors (TCs) exhibit optical transparency and electron conductivity, and are essential for many opto-electronic and photo-voltaic devices. The most common TCs are electron-doped oxides, which have few limitations when…

High Frequency (GW) Post Processing of Transparent Conductive Oxide, ITO, leads to a significant improvement of Optical Transmission and Electrical Conduction. This is also true in case of ITO films in multilayered structures. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-11 Wahid Shams-Kolahi , Nazir P. Kherani

Transparent conductive oxides (TCO) enable confinement of charge-sensitive ions and Rydberg atoms proximal to dielectric structures including waveguides and photon detectors. However, optical loss precludes the use of TCOs within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Wance Wang , Dhruv Fomra , Amit Agrawal , Henri J. Lezec , Joseph W. Britton

Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) are essential components of optoelectronic devices and various materials have been explored for highly efficient TCOs having a combination of high transmittance and low sheet resistance. Here, we focus…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-08 Reiji Okada , Hiroto Isomura , Yoshiki J. Sato , Ryuji Okazaki , Masayuki Inoue , Shinya Yoshioka

We present research results on the electronic transport in heterostructures based on p-type nickel oxide (NiO) with the n-type oxide semiconductors zinc oxide (ZnO) and cadmium oxide (CdO). NiO is a desirable candidate for application in…

The quest to improve transparent conductors balances two key goals: increasing electrical conductivity and increasing optical transparency. To improve both simultaneously is hindered by the physical limitation that good metals with high…

In recent years, epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials have attracted much attention due to their unique properties that can be tuned under electrical and optical signals. Furthermore, they allow for a strong enhancement of a nonlinearity close…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-24 Jacek Gosciniak
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