Wide band gap chalcogenide semiconductors

R Woods-Robinson, Y Han, H Zhang, T Ablekim… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Wide band gap semiconductors are essential for today's electronic devices and energy
applications because of their high optical transparency, controllable carrier concentration …

Transparent p-type semiconductors: copper-based oxides and oxychalcogenides

N Zhang, J Sun, H Gong - Coatings, 2019 - mdpi.com
While p-type transparent conducting materials (TCMs) are crucial for many optoelectronic
applications, their performance is still not satisfactory. This has impeded the development of …

Hole-doping to a Cu (I)-based semiconductor with an isovalent cation: Utilizing a complex defect as a shallow acceptor

K Matsuzaki, N Tsunoda, Y Kumagai… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
p-Type doping in Cu (I)-based semiconductors is pivotal for solar cell photoabsorbers and
hole transport materials to improve the device performance. Impurity doping is a …

Deep vs shallow nature of oxygen vacancies and consequent -type carrier concentrations in transparent conducting oxides

J Buckeridge, CRA Catlow, MR Farrow, AJ Logsdail… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
The source of n-type conductivity in undoped transparent conducting oxides has been a
topic of debate for several decades. The point defect of most interest in this respect is the …

Polymorph Engineering of TiO2: Demonstrating How Absolute Reference Potentials Are Determined by Local Coordination

J Buckeridge, KT Butler, CRA Catlow… - Chemistry of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We report that the valence and conduction band energies of TiO2 can be tuned over a 4 eV
range by varying the local coordination environments of Ti and O. We examine the electronic …

Automated procedure to determine the thermodynamic stability of a material and the range of chemical potentials necessary for its formation relative to competing …

J Buckeridge, DO Scanlon, A Walsh… - Computer Physics …, 2014 - Elsevier
We present a simple and fast algorithm to test the thermodynamic stability and determine the
necessary chemical environment for the production of a multiternary material, relative to …

Development of high lateral and wide angle resolved hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopy at BL47XU in SPring-8

E Ikenaga, M Kobata, H Matsuda, T Sugiyama… - Journal of Electron …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this study, we have realized a high lateral resolution and wide-angle-resolved hard X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES) facility at BL47XU in SPring-8. The system uses …

Observation and enhancement through alkali metal doping of p-type conductivity in the layered oxyselenides Sr 2 ZnO 2 Cu 2 Se 2 and Ba 2 Zn 1− x O 2− x Cu 2 Se 2

Z Malik, S Broadley, SJC Herkelrath… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The optoelectronic properties of two layered copper oxyselenide compounds, with nominal
composition Sr2ZnO2Cu2Se2 and Ba2ZnO2Cu2Se2, have been investigated to determine …

Layered PrZnOX (X= P, As) compounds: Promising n-type thermoelectric materials with low lattice thermal conductivity

X Li, S Bai, D Wan, J Zhang, M Wu, P Ai… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The heteronanionic materials exhibit low lattice thermal conductivities and excellent
electronic transport properties on account of their unique ZrSiCuAs-type crystal structures. In …

Recent progress in transparent conductive materials for photovoltaics

SK Maurya, HR Galvan, G Gautam, X Xu - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Transparent conducting materials (TCMs) are essential components for a variety of
optoelectronic devices, such as photovoltaics, displays and touch screens. In recent years …