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Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations are used to investigate the structure and electronic properties of the liquid Ag-Se system at three compositions. The realism of the simulations is demonstrated by comparison with diffraction data…
Ab initio molecular dynamics simulation is used to study the structure and electronic properties of the liquid Ga-Se system at the three compositions Ga$_2$Se, GaSe and Ga$_2$Se$_3$, and of the GaSe and Ga$_2$Se$_3$ crystals. The calculated…
Ab-initio dynamical simulation is used to study the liquid Ga-Se system at the three concentrations Ga$_2$Se, GaSe and Ga$_2$Se$_3$ at the temperature 1300~K. The simulations are based on the density functional pseudopotential technique,…
Ab initio molecular dynamics simulation is used to investigate the structure and dynamics of liquid Se at temperatures of 870 and 1370~K. The calculated static structure factor is in excellent agreement with experimental data. The…
Using an artificial neural-network machine learning interatomic potential, we have performed molecular dynamics simulations to study the structure and dynamics of Fe90Si3O7 liquid close to the Earth's liquid core conditions. The simulation…
In this article we employ density functional theory in the generalized gradient approximation to investigate the structural and electronic properties of the solid solution alloy $\text{Zn}\text{Se}_x\text{S}_{1-x}$ in the wurtzite…
We report the results of ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of liquid Ga_xAs_{1-x} alloys at five different concentrations, at a temperature of 1600 K, just above the melting point of GaAs. The liquid is predicted to be metallic at…
We employed ab-initio molecular dynamics to directly simulate the effects of Ag alloying ($\sim5%$ Ag concentration) on the phase change properties of Ge$_{2}$Sb$_{2}$Te$_{5}$. The short range order is preserved, whereas a slight…
Liquid NaSn alloys in five different compositions (20, 40, 50, 57 and 80% sodium) are studied using density functional calculations combined with molecular dynamics(Car-Parrinello method). The frequency-dependent electric conductivities for…
Enhancing properties and performances of aluminium alloys by a control of their solidification is pivotal in automotive and aerospace industries. The fundamental role of the structure-diffusion relationship is investigated for Al-Mg-Si…
The electronic structures of four semiconductor compounds BaCu2S2, BaCu2Se2, BaAg2S2, and BaAg2Se2 are studied by density functional theory using both semi-local and hybrid functionals. The ionization energies and electron affinities were…
\emph{Ab initio} calculations of the structure and electronic density of states (DOS) of the perfect core-shell $Ag_{27}Cu_{7}$ nanoalloy attest to its $D_{5h}$ symmetry and confirm that it has only 6 non-equivalent (2 $Cu$ and 4 $Ag$)…
In this paper, we present models of Ge-Se glasses heavily doped with Ag obtained from {\it ab initio} simulation and study the dynamics of the network with an emphasis on the motion of Ag$^+$ ions. The models are analyzed with partial pair…
First-principles molecular dynamics simulations having a duration of 8 ps have been used to study the static, dynamic and electronic properties of l-Ga at the temperatures 702 K and 982 K. The simulations use the density-functional…
Structural and dynamical properties of AsSe4 liquids have been studied by ab initio molecular dynamics simulations as a function of temperature. Calculated neutron structure factors are in good agreement with experimental data. Results show…
The local structure and electronic properties of Rb$_{1-x}$Fe$_{2-y}$Se$_2$ are investigated by means of site selective polarized x-ray absorption spectroscopy at the iron and selenium K-edges as a function of pressure. A combination of…
We study the structural, dynamical and electronic properties of amorphous Si\sub{1-x}Ge\sub{x}:H alloys using first principles local basis molecular dynamics simulation. The network topology and defects in the amorphous network have been…
First principles electronic structure calculations, based upon density functional theory within the generalized gradient approximation and ultra-soft Vanderbilt pseudopotentials, have been used to simulate a liquid alloy of iron and sulfur…
We have studied the structural and electronic properties of defect chalcopyrite semiconductors AAl2Se4 (A = Ag, Cu, Cd, Zn) using Density Functional Theory (DFT) based first principle technique within Tight binding Linear Muffin Tin orbital…
Several static and dynamic properties of liquid Cu, Ag and Au at thermodynamic states near their respective melting points, have been evaluated by means of the orbital free ab-initio molecular dynamics simulation method. The calculated…