Resistive switching (RS) is an interesting property shown by some materials systems that,
especially during the last decade, has gained a lot of interest for the fabrication of electronic …

Since the positive influences of defects on the performance of electroceramics were
discovered, investigations concerning on defects and aliovalent doping routes have grown …

Introduction of the photothermal effect into transition‐metal oxide photoanodes has been
proven to be an effective method to improve the photoelectrochemical (PEC) water‐splitting …

Metal-oxide semiconductors (MOS) are widely utilized for catalytic and photocatalytic
applications in which the dynamics of charged carriers (eg, electrons, holes) play important …

The dynamics of photoexcited polarons in transition-metal oxides (TMOs), including their
formation, migration, and quenching, plays an important role in photocatalysis and …

TiO2 is a famous wide-bandgap semiconductor which has important applications in
photocatalysis and photovoltaics. In the solar energy conversion process, photoexcited …

Localized electron polarons formed through the coupling of excess electrons and ionic
vibrations play a key role in the functionalities of materials. However, the mechanism of the …

Employing the first-principles plane-wave approach, we explored the behavior of electron
transport in the V2O5 cathode. Polaron migrations along different crystallographic directions …

The photoexcited carrier lifetime in semiconductors plays a crucial role in solar energy
conversion processes. The defects or impurities in semiconductors are usually proposed to …

The density and arrangement of oxygen vacancies (VOs) play an important role in tuning the
physicochemical properties of TiO2 for different technological applications, hence motivating …