Experimental synthesis of theoretically predicted multivalent ternary nitride materials

A Zakutayev, SR Bauers, S Lany - Chemistry of Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
Multivalent ternary nitride materials, which combine two metal cations with a nitrogen anion
in equal amounts and charge balanced stoichiometry, tend to have relatively simple …

Zinc titanium nitride semiconductor toward durable photoelectrochemical applications

AL Greenaway, S Ke, T Culman, KR Talley… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photoelectrochemical fuel generation is a promising route to sustainable liquid fuels
produced from water and captured carbon dioxide with sunlight as the energy input …

Ternary nitride semiconductors in the rocksalt crystal structure

SR Bauers, A Holder, W Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Inorganic nitrides with wurtzite crystal structures are well-known semiconductors used in
optical and electronic devices. In contrast, rocksalt-structured nitrides are known for their …

COMBIgor: data-analysis package for combinatorial materials science

KR Talley, SR Bauers, CL Melamed… - ACS combinatorial …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Combinatorial experiments involve synthesis of sample libraries with lateral composition
gradients requiring spatially resolved characterization of structure and properties. Because …

Thin film synthesis of semiconductors in the Mg–Sb–N materials system

KN Heinselman, S Lany, JD Perkins… - Chemistry of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nitrides feature many interesting properties, such as a wide range of bandgaps suitable for
optoelectronic devices including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and piezoelectric response …

Band Gap-Tunable (Mg, Zn)SnN2 Earth-Abundant Alloys with a Wurtzite Structure

N Yamada, M Mizutani, K Matsuura… - ACS Applied …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Herein, wurtzite-type MgSnN2–ZnSnN2 alloys (Mg x Zn1–x SnN2) are proposed as earth-
abundant and band gap-tunable semiconductors with fundamental band gaps in the range …

[HTML][HTML] Review of high-throughput approaches to search for piezoelectric nitrides

KR Talley, R Sherbondy, A Zakutayev… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Piezoelectric materials are commonplace in modern devices, and the prevalence of these
materials is poised to increase in the years to come. The majority of known piezoelectrics …

Role of disorder in the synthesis of metastable zinc zirconium nitrides

R Woods-Robinson, V Stevanović, S Lany… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
In materials science, it is often assumed that ground-state crystal structures predicted by
density functional theory are the easiest polymorphs to synthesize. Ternary nitride materials …

Bulk synthesis, structure, and electronic properties of magnesium zirconium nitride solid solutions

CL Rom, MJ Fallon, A Wustrow, AL Prieto… - Chemistry of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ternary nitride phase space holds great potential for new functional materials, as suggested
by computational predictions of yet-to-be discovered stable phases. Here, we report a …

Synthesis of Zn2NbN3 ternary nitride semiconductor with wurtzite-derived crystal structure

A Zakutayev - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Binary III–N nitride semiconductors with wurtzite crystal structure such as GaN and AlN have
been long used in many practical applications ranging from optoelectronics to …