Advancing density functional theory to finite temperatures: methods and applications in steel design

T Hickel, B Grabowski, F Körmann… - Journal of Physics …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The performance of materials such as steels, their high strength and formability, is based on
an impressive variety of competing mechanisms on the microscopic/atomic scale (eg …

Electrostatic interactions between charged defects in supercells

C Freysoldt, J Neugebauer… - physica status solidi …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Most theoretical calculations for point defects employ the supercell approach. The supercell
consists of a few dozen or 100 atoms of the bulk material with a single defect, and is subject …

PyCDT: A Python toolkit for modeling point defects in semiconductors and insulators

D Broberg, B Medasani, NER Zimmermann… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Point defects have a strong impact on the performance of semiconductor and insulator
materials used in technological applications, spanning microelectronics to energy …

First-principles study on the interaction of H interstitials with grain boundaries in - and -Fe

YA Du, L Ismer, J Rogal, T Hickel, J Neugebauer… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
The presence of hydrogen may weaken the bonding of iron atoms at grain boundaries,
leading to intergranular embrittlement and thus failure of the bulk material. In this paper, we …

[HTML][HTML] Stacking faults in a mechanically strong Al (Mg)–Al3Mg2 composite

D Zhou, X Zhang, A Tehranchi, J Hou, W Lu… - Composites Part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Stacking faults (SFs), similar to other planar defects such as grain boundaries, twin
boundaries and heterogeneous interfaces, can be tailored to simultaneously increase …

First-Principles Optical Spectra for Centers in MgO

P Rinke, A Schleife, E Kioupakis, A Janotti, C Rödl… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
The study of the oxygen vacancy (F center) in MgO has been aggravated by the fact that the
positively charged and the neutral vacancy (F+ and F 0, respectively) absorb at practically …

Thermodynamics up to the melting point in a TaVCrW high entropy alloy: Systematic study aided by machine learning potentials

Y Zhou, P Srinivasan, F Körmann, B Grabowski… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Multi-principal-component alloys have attracted great interest as a novel paradigm in alloy
design, with often unique properties and a vast compositional space auspicious for materials …

First-principles calculations for charged defects at surfaces, interfaces, and two-dimensional materials in the presence of electric fields

C Freysoldt, J Neugebauer - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We present a methodology to calculate the formation energy of a charged defect at a
surface, an interface, or a two-dimensional material in the presence of a macroscopic …

Temperature dependence of the stacking-fault Gibbs energy for Al, Cu, and Ni

X Zhang, B Grabowski, F Körmann, AV Ruban, Y Gong… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
The temperature-dependent intrinsic stacking fault Gibbs energy is computed based on
highly converged density-functional-theory (DFT) calculations for the three prototype face …

Ab Initio‐Based Prediction of Phase Diagrams: Application to Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys

T Hickel, M Uijttewaal, A Al‐Zubi, B Dutta… - Advanced …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
An ultimate goal of material scientists is the prediction of the thermodynamics of tailored
materials solely based on first principles methods. The present work reviews recent …