Advances and challenges in single-molecule electron transport

F Evers, R Korytár, S Tewari, JM Van Ruitenbeek - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

First-principles calculations of charge carrier mobility and conductivity in bulk semiconductors and two-dimensional materials

S Poncé, W Li, S Reichardt… - Reports on Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the fundamental properties of semiconductors is their ability to support highly tunable
electric currents in the presence of electric fields or carrier concentration gradients. These …

[HTML][HTML] DFTB+, a software package for efficient approximate density functional theory based atomistic simulations

B Hourahine, B Aradi, V Blum, F Bonafé… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
DFTB+ is a versatile community developed open source software package offering fast and
efficient methods for carrying out atomistic quantum mechanical simulations. By …

QuantumATK: an integrated platform of electronic and atomic-scale modelling tools

S Smidstrup, T Markussen… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
QuantumATK is an integrated set of atomic-scale modelling tools developed since 2003 by
professional software engineers in collaboration with academic researchers. While different …

Kwant: a software package for quantum transport

CW Groth, M Wimmer, AR Akhmerov… - New Journal of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Kwant is a Python package for numerical quantum transport calculations. It aims to be a user-
friendly, universal, and high-performance toolbox for the simulation of physical systems of …

[HTML][HTML] Improvements on non-equilibrium and transport Green function techniques: The next-generation transiesta

N Papior, N Lorente, T Frederiksen, A García… - Computer Physics …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present novel methods implemented within the non-equilibrium Green function code
(NEGF) transiesta based on density functional theory (DFT). Our flexible, next-generation …

First-principles Green's-function method for surface calculations: A pseudopotential localized basis set approach

S Smidstrup, D Stradi, J Wellendorff, PA Khomyakov… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We present an efficient implementation of a surface Green's-function method for atomistic
modeling of surfaces within the framework of density functional theory using a …

A Dirac-semimetal two-dimensional BeN4: Thickness-dependent electronic and optical properties

A Bafekry, C Stampfl, M Faraji… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Motivated by the recent experimental realization of a two-dimensional (2D) BeN 4
monolayer, in this study we investigate the structural, dynamical, electronic, and optical …

A first-principles study of the effects of atom impurities, defects, strain, electric field and layer thickness on the electronic and magnetic properties of the C2N nanosheet

A Bafekry, C Stampfl, M Ghergherehchi, SF Shayesteh - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
Using the first-principles calculations, we explore the structural and novel electronic/optical
properties of the C 2 N nanosheet. To this goal, we systematically investigate the affect of …

Electro-optical properties of monolayer and bilayer boron-doped C3N: Tunable electronic structure via strain engineering and electric field

A Bafekry, M Yagmurcukardes, M Shahrokhi… - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, the structural, electronic and optical properties of monolayer and bilayer of
boron doped C3N are investigated by means of density functional theory-based first …