DFT-1/2 and shell DFT-1/2 methods: electronic structure calculation for semiconductors at LDA complexity

GQ Mao, ZY Yan, KH Xue, Z Ai, S Yang… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
It is known that the Kohn–Sham eigenvalues do not characterize experimental excitation
energies directly, and the band gap of a semiconductor is typically underestimated by local …

Spin–Orbit Coupling Notably Retards Non-radiative Electron–Hole Recombination in Methylammonium Lead Triiodide Perovskites

H Lu, R Long - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
The giant spin–orbit coupling (SOC) of a heavy lead element significantly extends charge
carrier lifetimes of lead halide perovskites (LHPs). The physical mechanism remains unclear …

SimStack: an intuitive workflow framework

CRC Rêgo, J Schaarschmidt, T Schlöder… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Establishing a fundamental understanding of the nature of materials via computational
simulation approaches requires knowledge from different areas, including physics, materials …

Intrinsic doping limitations in inorganic lead halide perovskites

FP Sabino, A Zunger, GM Dalpian - Materials Horizons, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Inorganic halide perovskites (HP's) of the CsPbX3 (X= I, Br, Cl) type have reached
prominence in photovoltaic solar cell efficiencies, leading to the expectation that they are a …

First-principles studies on electronic and optical properties of formate-doped organic-inorganic perovskites MAPbI3

Y Wang, M Yang, Y Tang, M Zhao - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2022 - Elsevier
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs), as solar cell absorption layer materials, are a
research focus in the field of photovoltaics. Doping is one of the important methods to modify …

Automated workflow for analyzing thermodynamic stability in polymorphic perovskite alloys

LO de Araujo, CRC Rêgo, W Wenzel… - npj Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
In this first-principles investigation, we explore the polymorphic features of pseudo-cubic
alloys, focusing on the impact of mixing organic and inorganic cations on their structural and …

High-performance flexible and self-powered perovskite photodetector enabled by interfacial strain engineering

Y Deng, W Tai, Q Zhang, J Tang, J Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) with excellent optoelectronic properties, a soft lattice and
low-temperature solution processing have become promising candidates for flexible and self …

Revealing the impact of organic spacers and cavity cations on quasi-2D perovskites via computational simulations

D Guedes-Sobrinho, D Neves Silveira, LO de Araujo… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Two-dimensional hybrid lead iodide perovskites based on methylammonium (MA) cation
and butylammonium (BA) organic spacer—such as BA 2 MA n-1 Pb n I 3 n+ 1—are one of …

Impact of the polymorphism and relativistic effects on the electronic properties of inorganic metal halide perovskites

L Octavio de Araujo, CRC Rêgo… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent finds have revealed in metal halide perovskites the presence of lower local
symmetry contributions especially in the cubic phase in detriment to its high symmetry …

How cation nature controls the bandgap and bulk Rashba splitting of halide perovskites

LO de Araujo, CRC Rêgo, W Wenzel… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Because of instability issues presented by metal halide perovskites based on
methylammonium (MA), its replacement to Cs has emerged as an alternative to improve the …