Computational microstructure characterization and reconstruction: Review of the state-of-the-art techniques

R Bostanabad, Y Zhang, X Li, T Kearney… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Building sensible processing-structure-property (PSP) links to gain fundamental insights and
understanding of materials behavior has been the focus of many works in computational …

Guiding the design of heterogeneous electrode microstructures for Li‐ion batteries: microscopic imaging, predictive modeling, and machine learning

H Xu, J Zhu, DP Finegan, H Zhao, X Lu… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical and mechanical properties of lithium‐ion battery materials are heavily
dependent on their 3D microstructure characteristics. A quantitative understanding of the …

Bayesian optimization for materials design with mixed quantitative and qualitative variables

Y Zhang, DW Apley, W Chen - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Although Bayesian Optimization (BO) has been employed for accelerating materials
design in computational materials engineering, existing works are restricted to problems …

Machine-learning-assisted de novo design of organic molecules and polymers: opportunities and challenges

G Chen, Z Shen, A Iyer, UF Ghumman, S Tang, J Bi… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Organic molecules and polymers have a broad range of applications in biomedical,
chemical, and materials science fields. Traditional design approaches for organic molecules …

Photonics for photovoltaics: Advances and opportunities

EC Garnett, B Ehrler, A Polman, E Alarcon-Llado - ACS photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photovoltaic systems have reached impressive efficiencies, with records in the range of 20–
30% for single-junction cells based on many different materials, yet the fundamental …

Harnessing structural stochasticity in the computational discovery and design of microstructures

L Xu, N Hoffman, Z Wang, H Xu - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a deep generative model-based design methodology for tailoring the
structural stochasticity of microstructures. Although numerous methods have been …

Self-assembly of Au nano-islands with tuneable organized disorder for highly sensitive SERS

Z Fusco, R Bo, Y Wang, N Motta, H Chen… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Aggregates of disordered metallic nano-clusters exhibiting long-range organized fractal
properties are amongst the most efficient scattering enhancers, and they are promising as …

Efficient light-trapping in ultrathin GaAs solar cells using quasi-random photonic crystals

J Buencuerpo, TE Saenz, M Steger, M Young… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Ultrathin solar cells reduce material usage and allow the use of lower-quality materials
thanks to their one order of magnitude smaller thickness than their conventional …

Transparent quasi-random structures for multimodal light trapping in ultrathin solar cells with broad engineering tolerance

E Camarillo Abad, HJ Joyce, LC Hirst - ACS photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Waveguide modes are well-known to be a valuable light-trapping resource for absorption
enhancement in solar cells. However, their scarcity in the thinnest device stacks …

Over 65% sunlight absorption in a 1 μm Si slab with hyperuniform texture

N Tavakoli, R Spalding, A Lambertz, P Koppejan… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Thin, flexible, and invisible solar cells will be a ubiquitous technology in the near future.
Ultrathin crystalline silicon (c-Si) cells capitalize on the success of bulk silicon cells while …