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TiO$_2$ anatase has its significant importance in energy and environmental research. However, the major drawback of this immensely popular semi-conductor is its large bandgap of 3.2 eV. Several non-metals have been doped experimentally for…

Electronic properties and atomic structures of W, N, S, W/N, and W/S dopings of anatase TiO_2 have been systematically investigated using the density functional theory (DFT). The exchange and correlation effects have been treated with Heyd,…

We studied the electronic and atomic structures of anatase TiO2 codoped with Cr and N using hybrid density functional theory calculations. Nonlocal screened Hartree-Fock exchange energy is partially mixed with traditional semilocal exchange…

In this work, electronic structure of several doped TiO$_2$ anatase systems is computed using DFT+$U$. Effective masses of charge carriers are also computed to quantify how the dopant atoms perturb the bands of the host anatase material.…

Dopability in semiconductors plays a crucial role in device performance. Using the first-principles density-functional theory calculations, we investigate systematically the doping properties of layered MX2 (M= Mo, W; X=S, Te) by replacing…

We report first-principles microscopic calculations of the formation energy, electrical activity, and magnetic moment of Co dopants and a variety of native defects in TiO2 anatase. Using these results, we use equilibrium thermodynamics to…

TiO$_2$ and SrTiO$_3$ are well known materials in the field of photocatalysis due to their exceptional electronic structure, high chemical stability, non-toxicity and low cost. However, owing to the wide band gap, these can be utilized only…

By means of first-principles density-functional theory (DFT) calculations, we perform a comparative analysis of the electronic and magnetic properties of transition metal-doped TiO$_2$. The electronic band gaps of Ti$_x$M$_{1-x}$O$_2$,…

The structural, electronic, and optical properties of metal (Si, Ge, Sn, and Pb) mono- and co-doped anatase TiO$_{2}$ nanotubes are investigated, in order to elucidate their potential for photocatalytic applications. It is found that Si…

We report a first-principles study on the geometric, electronic and magnetic properties of V-doped anatase TiO$_{2}$. The DFT+U (Hubbard coefficient) approach predicts semiconductor band structures for Ti$_{1-x}$V$_{x}$O$_{2}$ (x=6.25 and…

It has been demonstrated in previous experimental and computational work that doping CeO2 with transition metals is an effective way of tuning its properties. However, each previous study on CeO2 doping has been limited to a single or a few…

Although $\beta$-TeO$_2$ is a promising $p$-type transparent conducting oxide (TCO) due to the large optical gap ($\sim$ 3.7 eV) and a light effective hole mass, its hole dopability still remains unexplored. In this work, electronic…

Transition metal (TM) oxides play an increasingly important role in technology today including applications such as catalysis, solar energy harvesting, and energy storage. In many of these applications, the details of their electronic…

Density functional theory calculations are used to show that it is possible to dope semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) such as MoS$_2$ and WS$_2$ with electrons and/or holes either by chemical substitution or by…

Density functional theory (DFT) and DFT corrected for on-site Coulomb interactions (DFT+U) calculations are presented on Aluminium doping in bulk TiO$_2$ and the anatase (101) surface. Particular attention is paid to the mobility of oxygen…

Doping properties of Bi, Cr and Ag dopants in thermoelectric and topological materials PbTe and SnTe are analyzed based on density functional theory calculations in the local density approximations and the large supercell method. In…

Using Hubbard U corrected density functional theory calculations, lattice Monte-Carlo, and spin-Monte-Carlo simulations, we investigate the impact of dopant clustering on the magnetic properties of WSe2~doped with period four transition…

Study and comparison of over 30 examples of electron doped BaFe2As2 for transition metal (TM) = Co, Ni, Cu, and (Co/Cu mixtures) have lead to an understanding that the suppression of the structural/antiferromagnetic phase transition to low…

A density functional theory study of atomic defects and dopants in ternary Z-phase transition-metal nitrides CrMN with M=V, Nb, or Ta is presented. Various defect formation energies of native point defects and of substitutional atoms of…

Charge transfer between metal nanoparticles and the supported TiO2 surface is primarily important for catalytic applications as it greatly affects the catalytic activity and the thermal stability of the deposited nanoparticles on the…