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Anderson's rule

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Data-Intensive Exploration of the Photoelectrochemical Responses of Main-Group Metal Sulfides

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Materials that efficiently promote the thermodynamically uphill water-splitting reaction under solar illumination are essential for generating carbon-free ("green") hydrogen. Mapping out the combinatorial space of potential photocatalysts for this reaction ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Electrical and Optical Manifestations of Flat Band Physics in Van der Waals Materials

Gabriele Pasquale

The scientific progress is significantly transforming contemporary society with the introduction and widespread application of technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Despite their profound impact, these technologies necessitate en ...

EPFL2024

Momentum-Space Imaging of Ultra-Thin Electron Liquids in δ-Doped Silicon

Gabriel Aeppli

Two-dimensional dopant layers (δ-layers) in semiconductors provide the high-mobility electron liquids (2DELs) needed for nanoscale quantum-electronic devices. Key parameters such as carrier densities, effective masses, and confinement thicknesses for 2DELs ...

WILEY2023

Foldable Hole-Transporting Materials for Merging Electronic States between Defective and Perfect Perovskite Sites

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Yi Zhang, Hiroyuki Kanda, Kasparas Rakstys, Jianxing Xia, Keith Gregory Brooks, Xiaoxin Gao

Defective and perfect sites naturally exist within electronic semiconductors, and considerable efforts to reduce defects to improve the performance of electronic devices, especially in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (ABX(3)), are undertaken. Herein, ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Electrical detection of the flat-band dispersion in van der Waals field-effect structures

Andras Kis, Oleg Yazyev, Kristians Cernevics, Fedele Tagarelli, Zhe Sun, Edoardo Lopriore, Gabriele Pasquale

Two-dimensional flat-band systems have recently attracted considerable interest due to the rich physics unveiled by emergent phenomena and correlated electronic states at van Hove singularities. However, the difficulties in electrically detecting the flat- ...

2023

Metal-Free Molecular Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Electron Affinity as an Activity Descriptor

Ganna Gryn'ova, Juliette Veronique Schleicher

Heteroatom-doped polyaromatic hydrocarbons (or nanographenes) are promising molecular electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Here, we use density functional theory to investigate the first step of the ORR pathway (chemisorption) for a se ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Modelling electronic transport in monocrystalline metal oxide gas sensors: from the surface kinetics to the experimental response

Roberto Guarino, Gianluca Piccinini

Gas sensing systems and devices based on metal oxides are widely spreading due to their high performance in terms of sensor response and relatively low costs. Despite several experimental studies, as well as molecular simulations, are available in the lite ...

Elsevier2022

Electronic properties and ion migration of “in vacuo” lithiated nanoporous WO3:Mo thin films

Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Luc Burnier, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury

Electrochromic (EC) glazing helps manage daylight and solar heat gains in building, thereby allowing a reduction in energy consumption caused by heating, cooling, and artificial lighting. This study relates the optical and electronic properties of nanoporo ...

2022

Electrical Spectroscopy of Defect States in Synthetic 2D Materials

Yanfei Zhao

Two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) are considered as one of the most promising material platforms for future electronic devices, due to their ultra-thin thickness and fascinating electrical and optica ...

EPFL2022

Accurate and efficient band-gap predictions for metal halide perovskites at finite temperature

Alfredo Pasquarello, Patrick Gono, Thomas Bischoff, Haiyuan Wang

We develop a computationally efficient scheme to accurately determine finite-temperature band gaps for metal halide perovskites belonging to the class ABX(3) (A = Rb, Cs; B = Ge, Sn, Pb; and X = F, Cl, Br, I). First, an initial estimate of the band gap is ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

SiNx and AlOx Nanolayers in Hole Selective Passivating Contacts for High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells

Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset

The recombination of photogenerated charge carriers at metal-semiconductor interfaces remains a major source of efficiency loss in photovoltaic cells. Here, we present SiNx and AlOx nanolayers as promising interface dielectrics to enable high efficiency ho ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

In-line electronic and structural characterization of reactively sputtered Cu-Co-Mn black spinel oxides

Andreas Schueler, Anna Krammer, Maxime Lagier

Cu-Co-Mn spinel oxide thin films are deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering. The x-ray diffraction (XRD) spectrum suggests a nanocrystalline spinel film when sputtered at approximate to 465 degrees C. In-line scanning tunneling microscopy confirms nano ...

A V S AMER INST PHYSICS2021

Spectroscopic view of ultrafast charge carrier dynamics in single- and bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors

Jens Christian Johannsen

The quasiparticle spectra of atomically thin semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and their response to an ultrafast optical excitation critically depend on interactions with the underlying substrate. Here, we present a comparative time- ...

ELSEVIER2021

Extensive Benchmarking of DFT+U Calculations for Predicting Band Gaps

Iurii Timrov

Accurate computational predictions of band gaps are of practical importance to the modeling and development of semiconductor technologies, such as (opto)electronic devices and photoelectrochemical cells. Among available electronic-structure methods, densit ...

2021

Band alignment at the CaF2/Si(111) interface through advanced electronic structure calculations

Alfredo Pasquarello, Igor Reshetnyak, Thomas Bischoff

We determine the band alignment at the CaF2/Si(111) interface through various advanced electronic structure methods. This interface is experimentally well studied and serves as an ideal test case to examine the accuracy of theoretical schemes. We use both ...

2020

Band alignment at beta-Ga2O3/III-N (III = Al, Ga) interfaces through hybrid functional calculations

Alfredo Pasquarello, Sai Lyu

The band alignment and the chemical bonding at the beta -Ga2O3/AlN and beta -Ga2O3/GaN interfaces are studied through hybrid functional calculations. We construct realistic slab models with III-O (III = Al, Ga) bonds dominating the chemical bonding at both ...

2020

Unraveling the synergy between metal-organic frameworks and co-catalysts in photocatalytic water splitting

Alfredo Pasquarello, Kyriakos Stylianou, Stavroula Kampouri, Stefano Falletta, Patrick Gono, Zhendong Guo

We investigate the synergy occurring in photocatalytic water splitting between the metal-organic framework MIL-125-NH(2)and two co-catalysts, namely NiO and Ni2P, by calculating their band edge alignment with respect to the redox levels of liquid water. Fo ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Evaluating Materials Design Parameters of Hole-Selective Contacts for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Angela Nicole Fioretti

Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell efficiencies are limited by parasitic absorption from the hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) front contact, but this may be mitigated by selecting an alternative carrier selective contact material with a wider b ...

2020

Effects of InAlN underlayer on deep traps detected in near-UV InGaN/GaN single quantum well light-emitting diodes

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Camille Haller

Two types of near-UV light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with an InGaN/GaN single quantum well (QW) differing only in the presence or absence of an underlayer (UL) consisting of an InAlN/GaN superlattice (SL) were examined. The InAlN-based ULs were previously sho ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Saddle-like, π-conjugated, cyclooctatetrathiophene-based, hole-transporting material for perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Giulia Grancini, Iwan Zimmermann, Inés Garcia Benito

A flexible, saddle-like, π-conjugated skeleton composed of four fused thiophene rings forming a cyclooctatetrathiophene (CoTh) with four triphenylamines (CoTh-TTPA) is presented as a hole-transporting material (HTM) for perovskite solar cells. The new HTM ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019