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Anisotropy of the Electric Field Gradient in Two-Dimensional α-MoO3 Investigated by 57Mn(57Fe) Emission Mössbauer Spectroscopy. CRYSTALS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/cryst12070942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Van der Waals α-MoO3 samples offer a wide range of attractive catalytic, electronic, and optical properties. We present herein an emission Mössbauer spectroscopy (eMS) study of the electric-field gradient (EFG) anisotropy in crystalline free-standing α-MoO3 samples. Although α-MoO3 is a two-dimensional (2D) material, scanning electron microscopy shows that the crystals are 0.5–5-µm thick. The combination of X-ray diffraction and micro-Raman spectroscopy, performed after sample preparation, provided evidence of the phase purity and crystal quality of the samples. The eMS measurements were conducted following the implantation of 57Mn (t1/2 = 1.5 min), which decays to the 57Fe, 14.4 keV Mössbauer state. The eMS spectra of the samples are dominated by a paramagnetic doublet (D1) with an angular dependence, pointing to the Fe2+ probe ions being in a crystalline environment. It is attributed to an asymmetric EFG at the eMS probe site originating from strong in-plane covalent bonds and weak out-of-plane van der Waals interactions in the 2D material. Moreover, a second broad component, D2, can be assigned to Fe3+ defects that are dynamically generated during the online measurements. The results are compared to ab initio simulations and are discussed in terms of the in-plane and out-of-plane interactions in the system.
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Yao Y. Theoretical methods for structural phase transitions in elemental solids at extreme conditions: statics and dynamics. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2022; 34:363001. [PMID: 35724660 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac7a82] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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In recent years, theoretical studies have moved from a traditionally supporting role to a more proactive role in the research of phase transitions at high pressures. In many cases, theoretical prediction leads the experimental exploration. This is largely owing to the rapid progress of computer power and theoretical methods, particularly the structure prediction methods tailored for high-pressure applications. This review introduces commonly used structure searching techniques based on static and dynamic approaches, their applicability in studying phase transitions at high pressure, and new developments made toward predicting complex crystalline phases. Successful landmark studies for each method are discussed, with an emphasis on elemental solids and their behaviors under high pressure. The review concludes with a perspective on outstanding challenges and opportunities in the field.
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- Yansun Yao
- Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada
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Kovacs P, Tran F, Blaha P, Madsen G. What is the optimal mGGA exchange functional for solids? J Chem Phys 2022; 157:094110. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0098787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The space of GGA and mGGA exchange approximations is systematically explored bytraining 25 new functionals to produce accurate lattice parameter, cohesive energy andband gap predictions. The trained functionals are used to reproduce previous knowledge ina data-driven way and to understand the accuracy tradeoff between the mentioned proper-ties. The functionals are compared to notable mGGA functionals to analyze how changesin the enhancement factor maps influence the accuracy of the predictions. Some of thetrained functionals are found to perform on par with specialized functionals for band gaps,while outperforming them on the other two properties. The error surface of our trainedfunctionals can serve as a soft-limit of what mGGA functionals can achieve.
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- Peter Kovacs
- Vienna University of Technology Faculty of Technical Chemistry, Austria
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- Institute of Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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- Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology Faculty of Technical Chemistry, Austria
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Sihi A, Pandey SK. Evidence of phase stability, topological phonon and temperature-induced topological phase transition in rocksalt SnS and SnSe. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2022; 34:325601. [PMID: 35623345 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac742e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Both SnS and SnSe have been experimentally and theoretically confirmed as topological crystalline insulators in native rocksalt structure. Here, phononic structure, thermodynamic properties and temperature dependent electron-phonon interaction (EPI) have investigated for both the materials in rocksalt phase. Previously performed theoretical studies have predicted the phase instability of SnS in this crystal structure at ambient condition. But, after a detailed study performing on the phonon calculation of SnS, we have predicted the phase stability of SnS with considering the Sn 4porbitals as valence states inab-initiocalculation. The importance of long range Coulomb forces along with the themodynamical properties are also described in detailed for both materials. The computed value of Debye temperature (ΘD) for SnS (SnSe) is ∼315.0 K (∼201.7 K). The preliminary evidence of topological phonon is found alongX-Wdirection, where the linear band touching is observed as compared to type II Weyl phononic material ZnSe (Liuet al2021Phys. Rev.B103094306). The topological phase transition is seen for these materials due to EPI, where non-linear temperature dependent bandgap is estimated. The predicted value of transition temperature for SnS (SnSe) is found to be ∼700 K, where after this temperature the non-trivial to trivial topological phase is seen. The strength of EPI shows more stronger impact on the electronic structure of SnS than SnSe material. The reason of non-linear behaviour of bandgap with rise in temperature is discussed with the help of temperature dependent linewidths and lineshifts of conduction band and valence band due to EPI. The present study reveals the phase stability of SnS along with the comparative study of thermal effect on EPI of SnS and SnSe. Further, the possibility of temperature induced topological phase transition provides one of important behaviour to apply these two materials for device making application.
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- Antik Sihi
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand 175075, India
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- School of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand 175075, India
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Patra A, Patra B, Samal P. Accurate band gaps from exchange potentials designed from a cuspless hydrogen density-based exchange hole model. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:13633-13640. [PMID: 35611605 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp05425b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The explicit forms of exchange-correlation (XC) potentials, which are not functional derivatives of any XC energy functional, are reasonably efficient in predicting the band gap of materials. The most successful example in this genre is the MBJ [F. Tran et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 2009 102, 226401] exchange potential, which is based on the asymptotically correct Becke-Roussel (BR) exchange potential. We employ the cuspless hydrogen density and corresponding exchange hole to construct a BR like potential. The modified BR potential is again utilized in the framework of MBJ for band gap calculations. Also, we employ a Laplacian free model of the exchange hole in the framework of MBJ. These methods are analyzed by calculating band gaps of various test sets containing narrow, intermediate, and wide bandgap materials. Besides, we apply these potentials to eighteen ternary semiconductors with a chalcopyrite structure, exciting materials for photovoltaic applications. By comparing them with MBJ, we find that the band gaps obtained using the new potentials are not uniformly larger values than the MBJ potential in all cases. But, in many instances where MBJ overestimates the gap, the new potentials' band gaps are comparatively smaller and closer to the experimental ones. We also show that these potentials can correctly predict the band structure of three-dimensional topological insulators.
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- Abhilash Patra
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Bhubaneswar 752050, India.
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Bhubaneswar 752050, India.
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Bhubaneswar 752050, India.
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Kim M, McNally GM, Kim HH, Oudah M, Gibbs AS, Manuel P, Green RJ, Sutarto R, Takayama T, Yaresko A, Wedig U, Isobe M, Kremer RK, Bonn DA, Keimer B, Takagi H. Superconductivity in (Ba,K)SbO 3. NATURE MATERIALS 2022; 21:627-633. [PMID: 35228661 PMCID: PMC9156407 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01203-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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(Ba,K)BiO3 constitute an interesting class of superconductors, where the remarkably high superconducting transition temperature Tc of 30 K arises in proximity to charge density wave order. However, the precise mechanism behind these phases remains unclear. Here, enabled by high-pressure synthesis, we report superconductivity in (Ba,K)SbO3 with a positive oxygen-metal charge transfer energy in contrast to (Ba,K)BiO3. The parent compound BaSbO3-δ shows a larger charge density wave gap compared to BaBiO3. As the charge density wave order is suppressed via potassium substitution up to 65%, superconductivity emerges, rising up to Tc = 15 K. This value is lower than the maximum Tc of (Ba,K)BiO3, but higher by more than a factor of two at comparable potassium concentrations. The discovery of an enhanced charge density wave gap and superconductivity in (Ba,K)SbO3 indicates that strong oxygen-metal covalency may be more essential than the sign of the charge transfer energy in the main-group perovskite superconductors.
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- Minu Kim
- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- ISIS Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxon, United Kingdom
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- ISIS Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxon, United Kingdom
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- Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Physics & Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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- Canadian Light Source, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.
- Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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Barton AT, Liang M, Craig AJ, Zhang W, Stoyko SS, Radzanowski AN, Fingerlow D, Halasyamani PS, MacNeil JH, Aitken JA. Li
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: Two nonlinear optical sulfides featuring a unique, polar trigonal structure incorporating ethane‐like anions. Z Anorg Allg Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/zaac.202200071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Ari T. Barton
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Duquesne University 15282 Pittsburgh, PA United States
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- Department of Chemistry University of Houston 77204 Houston, TX United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Duquesne University 15282 Pittsburgh, PA United States
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- Department of Chemistry University of Houston 77204 Houston, TX United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Duquesne University 15282 Pittsburgh, PA United States
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- Department of Chemistry Chatham University 15232 Pittsburgh, PA United States
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- Department of Chemistry Chatham University 15232 Pittsburgh, PA United States
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- Department of Chemistry University of Houston 77204 Houston, TX United States
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- Department of Chemistry Chatham University 15232 Pittsburgh, PA United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Duquesne University 15282 Pittsburgh, PA United States
- Duquesne University 600 Forbes Ave 15282 Pittsburgh, PA United States
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Kim YH, Yi YS, Kim HI, Chow P, Xiao Y, Shen G, Lee SK. Pressure-Driven Changes in the Electronic Bonding Environment of GeO 2 Glass above Megabar Pressures. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:10025-10033. [PMID: 35616519 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c03542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Noncrystalline oxides under pressure undergo gradual structural modifications, highlighted by the formation of a dense noncrystalline network topology. The nature of the densified networks and their electronic structures at high pressures may account for the mechanical hardening and the anomalous changes in electromagnetic properties. Despite its importance, direct probing of the electronic structures in amorphous oxides under compression above the Mbar pressure (>100 GPa) is currently lacking. Here, we report the observation of pressure-driven changes in electronic configurations and their delocalization around oxygen in glasses using inelastic X-ray scattering spectroscopy (IXS). In particular, the first O K-edge IXS spectra for compressed GeO2 glass up to 148 GPa, the highest pressure ever reached in an experimental study of GeO2 glass, reveal that the glass densification results from a progressive increase of oxygen proximity. While the triply coordinated oxygen [3]O is dominant below ∼50 GPa, the IXS spectra resolve multiple edge features that are unique to topologically disordered [4]O upon densification above 55 GPa. Topological compaction in GeO2 glass above 100 GPa results in pronounced electronic delocalization, revealing the contribution from Ge d-orbitals to oxide densification. Strong correlations between the glass density and the electronic configurations beyond the Mbar conditions highlight the electronic origins of densification of heavy-metal-bearing oxide glasses. Current experimental breakthroughs shed light on the direct probing of the electronic density of states in high-Z oxides above 1 Mbar, offering prospects for studies on the pressure-driven changes in magnetism, superconductivity, and electronic transport properties in heavy-metal-bearing oxides under compression.
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- Yong-Hyun Kim
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
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- HPCAT, X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- HPCAT, X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- HPCAT, X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea.,Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
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Maduro L, van Heijst SE, Conesa-Boj S. First-Principles Calculation of Optoelectronic Properties in 2D Materials: The Polytypic WS 2 Case. ACS PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AU 2022; 2:191-198. [PMID: 35637785 PMCID: PMC9136949 DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.1c00038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2021] [Revised: 12/19/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The phenomenon of
polytypism, namely unconventional crystal phases
displaying a mixture of stacking sequences, represents a powerful
handle to design and engineer novel physical properties in two-dimensional
(2D) materials. In this work, we characterize from first-principles
the optoelectronic properties associated with the 2H/3R polytypism
occurring in WS2 nanomaterials by means of density functional
theory (DFT) calculations. We evaluate the band gap, optical response,
and energy-loss function associated with 2H/3R WS2 nanomaterials
and compare our predictions with experimental measurements of electron
energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) carried out in nanostructures exhibiting
the same polytypism. Our results provide further input to the ongoing
efforts toward the integration of polytypic 2D materials into functional
devices.
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- Louis Maduro
- Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2628CJ, The Netherlands
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- Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2628CJ, The Netherlands
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- Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2628CJ, The Netherlands
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Voroshnin V, Tarasov AV, Bokai KA, Chikina A, Senkovskiy BV, Ehlen N, Usachov DY, Grüneis A, Krivenkov M, Sánchez-Barriga J, Fedorov A. Direct Spectroscopic Evidence of Magnetic Proximity Effect in MoS 2 Monolayer on Graphene/Co. ACS NANO 2022; 16:7448-7456. [PMID: 35442015 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c10391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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A magnetic field modifies optical properties and provides valley splitting in a molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) monolayer. Here we demonstrate a scalable approach to the epitaxial synthesis of MoS2 monolayer on a magnetic graphene/Co system. Using spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy we observe a magnetic proximity effect that causes a 20 meV spin-splitting at the Γ̅ point and canting of spins at the K̅ point in the valence band toward the in-plane direction of cobalt magnetization. Our density functional theory calculations reveal that the in-plane spin component at K̅ is localized on Co atoms in the valence band, while in the conduction band it is localized on the MoS2 layer. The calculations also predict a 16 meV spin-splitting at the Γ̅ point and 8 meV K̅-K'¯ valley asymmetry for an out-of-plane magnetization. These findings suggest control over optical transitions in MoS2 via Co magnetization. Our estimations show that the magnetic proximity effect is equivalent to the action of the magnetic field as large as 100 T.
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- Vladimir Voroshnin
- Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24/25, Potsdam 14476, Germany
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- St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 198504, Russia
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- St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 198504, Russia
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- Paul Scherrer Institute, Forschungsstrasse 111, Villigen PSI 5232, Switzerland
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- II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Strasse 77, Köln 50937, Germany
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- II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Strasse 77, Köln 50937, Germany
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- II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Strasse 77, Köln 50937, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin 12489, Germany
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- IFW Dresden, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, D-01171, Dresden 01069, Germany
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Dedication: Commemorative Issue in Honor of Professor Karlheinz Schwarz on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday. COMPUTATION 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/computation10050078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Karlheinz Schwarz was born in January 1941 in Vienna (Austria), and he married Christine Schwarz in 1969 [...]
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Ding Y, Yang J, Ji Y, Guo Q, Li X, Wang L, Meng Y, Shen X, Yao Y, Yu R. Several factors influencing energy‐loss near‐edge structure calculations using Wien2k. J Microsc 2022; 287:61-68. [DOI: 10.1111/jmi.13111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2022] [Revised: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Yifan Ding
- Beijing National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
- School of Physics Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
- School of Physics Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
- School of Physics Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
- School of Physics Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
- School of Physics Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
- School of Physics Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
- School of Physics Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
- School of Physics Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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Ponce-Ruiz JLA, Ishizuka S, Todaka Y, Yamada Y, Serrato AR, Herrera-Ramirez JM. Theoretical and Experimental Study of CaMgSi Thermoelectric Properties. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:15451-15458. [PMID: 35571770 PMCID: PMC9096820 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c07307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Pure CaMgSi was successfully synthesized by mechanical milling, followed by spark plasma sintering. Rietveld refinement was used to calculate the structural parameters, where a crystallite size (D XRD) of 79 nm was estimated. This value was confirmed by the Williamson-Hall analysis. Transmission electron microscopy was used to analyze the microstructure, revealing the presence of extensive interfaces, nanoparticles, and a high crystallinity. First-principles calculations were performed with the WIEN2k package, finding a band gap of 0.27 eV. The thermoelectric properties were determined combining experimental measurements and theoretical results from the BoltzTraP code. The highest value of the electronic figure of merit (ZT e) was 1.67 at 415 K. However, when the lattice thermal contribution (k L) is considered, the highest value of the figure of merit (ZT) was 0.144 at 644 K.
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- Jesus L. A. Ponce-Ruiz
- Centro
de investigación en Materiales Avanzados (CIMAV), Laboratorio Nacional de Nanotecnología, Miguel de Cervantes 120, Complejo
industrial Chihuahua, Chihuahua 31136, Mexico
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- Toyohashi
University of Technology, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, 1-1 Hibarigaoka Tempaku-cho, Toyohashi, Aichi 441-8580, Japan
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- Toyohashi
University of Technology, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, 1-1 Hibarigaoka Tempaku-cho, Toyohashi, Aichi 441-8580, Japan
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- Toyohashi
University of Technology, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, 1-1 Hibarigaoka Tempaku-cho, Toyohashi, Aichi 441-8580, Japan
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- Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, Departamento modelación
de nanomateriales, Centro de Nanociencias
y Nanotecnología, Km. 107 Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California 22860, Mexico
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- Centro
de investigación en Materiales Avanzados (CIMAV), Laboratorio Nacional de Nanotecnología, Miguel de Cervantes 120, Complejo
industrial Chihuahua, Chihuahua 31136, Mexico
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DFT investigations of AgMC 7H 10N 2 (M = Cl, Br, and I) metal organic molecules: NMR, optoelectronic, and transport properties. J Mol Model 2022; 28:136. [PMID: 35511304 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-022-05114-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method was used for the calculation of the structural, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), optoelectronic, and thermoelectric properties of AgMC7H10N2 (M = Cl, Br, and I) compounds. The calculated wide band gap of AgMC7H10N2 (M = Cl, Br, and I) metal organic molecules with the density of states approach were 3.32, 3.29, and 3.10 eV, respectively. The NMR parameters are calculated for the Ag, Cl, Br, I, C, N, O, and H elements. It is found that by decreasing bandgap, the isotropic NMR chemical shielding values of Cl, Br, and I elements increase. The strong hybridization of Ag-4d, Cl-3p, Br-4p, and I-5p states are observed at the top of the valence band. The birefringence and anisotropic properties are observed in the optical spectra with high plasmon energies, and the figure of merit, ZT, of 0.98 for AgCl(C7H10N2) compound is found at 300 K. Hence, these compounds are attractive flexible metal organic molecules for optoelectronic and transport applications.
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Lattice Dynamics, Mechanical Properties, Electronic Structure and Magnetic Properties of Equiatomic Quaternary Heusler Alloys CrTiCoZ (Z = Al, Si) Using First Principles Calculations. MATERIALS 2022; 15:ma15093128. [PMID: 35591462 PMCID: PMC9105424 DOI: 10.3390/ma15093128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2022] [Revised: 03/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/20/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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First principles calculations are performed to investigate the thermodynamical stability, dynamical, mechanical, electronic and magnetic properties of CrTiCoZ (Z = Al/Si) novel quaternary Heusler alloys. A Y-type III atomic configuration is found to be the most stable structure for both compounds. The lattice constant values obtained using GGA-PBE approach are 5.9368 Å and 5.7853 Å for CrTiCoAl and CrTiCoSi, respectively. Using the value of elastic moduli for both the compounds, the computed Pugh’s ratio value is 2.5 and 2.7 for CrTiCoAl and CrTiCoSi, respectively, which is higher than 1.75, indicating both the compounds are ductile in nature. The melting temperatures of both compounds are as high as 2142 K and 2420 K for CrTiCoAl and CrTiCoSi, respectively. The electronic structure calculations, using the GGA-PBE approach, show a half metallic behavior of CrTiCoAl. The spin-down channel exhibits a direct band gap of 0.15 eV, whereas the spin-up channel is metallic, making CrTiCoAl a half metallic ferromagnet with 100% spin polarization and an appreciable magnetic moment of −2 μB. However, CrTiCoSi is found to be semi-metallic in the spin-down channel and metallic in the spin-up channel, which leads to a spin polarization of 99.7% with a non-integer magnetic moment of −0.99 μB. The Curie temperature of CrTiCoAl is well above the room temperature (385 K), whereas that of CrTiCoSi is below the room temperature (203 K). Thus, CrTiCoAl is found to be more promising than CrTiCoSi as a spin injector in spintronic devices.
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Sk S, Shahi N, Pandey SK. Experimental and computational approaches to study the high temperature thermoelectric properties of novel topological semimetal CoSi. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2022; 34:265901. [PMID: 35390770 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac655a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Here, we study the thermoelectric properties of topological semimetal CoSi in the temperature range 300-800 K by using combined experimental and density functional theory (DFT) based methods. CoSi is synthesized using arc melting technique and the Rietveld refinement gives the lattice parameters ofa=b=c= 4.445 Å. The measured values of Seebeck coefficient (S) shows the non-monotonic behaviour in the studied temperature range with the value of ∼-81μV K-1at room temperature. The |S| first increases till 560 K (∼-93μV K-1) and then decreases up to 800 K (∼-84μV K-1) indicating the dominating n-type behaviour in the full temperature range. The electrical conductivity,σ(thermal conductivity,κ) shows the monotonic decreasing (increasing) behaviour with the values of∼5.2×105(12.1 W m-1 K-1) and∼3.6×105(14.2 W m-1 K-1) Ω-1 m-1at 300 K and 800 K, respectively. Theκexhibits the temperature dependency as,κ∝T0.16. The DFT based Boltzmann transport theory is used to understand these behaviour. The multi-band electron and hole pockets appear to be mainly responsible for deciding the temperature dependent transport behaviour. Specifically, the decrease in the |S| above 560 K and change in the slope ofσaround 450 K are due to the contribution of thermally generated charge carriers from the hole pockets. The temperature dependent relaxation time (τ) is computed by comparing the experimentalσwith calculatedσ/τand it shows temperature dependency of 1/T0.35. Further this value ofτis used to calculate the temperature dependent electronic part of thermal conductivity (κe) and it gives a fairly good match with the experiment. Present study suggests that electronic band-structure obtained from DFT provides a reasonably good estimate of the transport coefficients of CoSi in the high temperature region of 300-800 K.
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- Shamim Sk
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand-175075, India
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- School of Materials Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi 221005, India
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- School of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand-175075, India
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Li X, Haunold T, Werkovits S, Marks LD, Blaha P, Rupprechter G. CO Adsorption and Disproportionation on Smooth and Defect-Rich Ir(111). THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2022; 126:6578-6589. [PMID: 35493699 PMCID: PMC9036526 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c01141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2022] [Revised: 03/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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CO adsorption and dissociation on "perfect" and "defect-rich" Ir(111) surfaces were studied by a combination of surface-analytical techniques, including polarization-dependent (PPP and SSP) sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy, low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), Auger electron spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. CO was found to be ordered and tilted from the surface normal at high coverage on the "perfect" surface (e.g., θ = 30° at 0.70 ML), whereas it was less ordered and preferentially upright (θ = 4-10°) on the "defect-rich" surface for coverages of 0.55-0.70 ML. SFG, LEED, and XPS revealed that CO adsorption at low pressure/high temperature and high pressure/low temperature was reversible. In contrast, upon heating to ∼600 K in near mbar CO pressure, "perfect" and even more "defect-rich" Ir(111) surfaces were irreversibly modified by carbon deposits, which, according to DFT, result from CO disproportionation.
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- Xia Li
- Institute
of Materials Chemistry, Technische Universität Wien, 1060 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute
of Materials Chemistry, Technische Universität Wien, 1060 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute
of Materials Chemistry, Technische Universität Wien, 1060 Vienna, Austria
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern
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- Institute
of Materials Chemistry, Technische Universität Wien, 1060 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute
of Materials Chemistry, Technische Universität Wien, 1060 Vienna, Austria
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Samanta B, Morales-García Á, Illas F, Goga N, Anta JA, Calero S, Bieberle-Hütter A, Libisch F, Muñoz-García AB, Pavone M, Caspary Toroker M. Challenges of modeling nanostructured materials for photocatalytic water splitting. Chem Soc Rev 2022; 51:3794-3818. [PMID: 35439803 DOI: 10.1039/d1cs00648g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Understanding the water splitting mechanism in photocatalysis is a rewarding goal as it will allow producing clean fuel for a sustainable life in the future. However, identifying the photocatalytic mechanisms by modeling photoactive nanoparticles requires sophisticated computational techniques based on multiscale modeling. In this review, we will survey the strengths and drawbacks of currently available theoretical methods at different length and accuracy scales. Understanding the surface-active site through Density Functional Theory (DFT) using new, more accurate exchange-correlation functionals plays a key role for surface engineering. Larger scale dynamics of the catalyst/electrolyte interface can be treated with Molecular Dynamics albeit there is a need for more generalizations of force fields. Monte Carlo and Continuum Modeling techniques are so far not the prominent path for modeling water splitting but interest is growing due to the lower computational cost and the feasibility to compare the modeling outcome directly to experimental data. The future challenges in modeling complex nano-photocatalysts involve combining different methods in a hierarchical way so that resources are spent wisely at each length scale, as well as accounting for excited states chemistry that is important for photocatalysis, a path that will bring devices closer to the theoretical limit of photocatalytic efficiency.
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- Bipasa Samanta
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3600003, Israel
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- Departament de Ciència de Materials i Química Física & Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, c/Martí i Franquès 1-11, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Departament de Ciència de Materials i Química Física & Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, c/Martí i Franquès 1-11, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages, Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti, Bucuresti, Romania.
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- Department of Physical, Chemical and Natural Systems, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Crta. De Utrera km. 1, 41089 Sevilla, Spain.
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- Materials Simulation & Modeling, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Electrochemical Materials and Interfaces, Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER), 5600 HH Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria.
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- Dipartimento di Fisica "Ettore Pancini", Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Cintia 21, Napoli 80126, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Cintia 21, Napoli 80126, Italy.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3600003, Israel.,The Nancy and Stephen Grand Technion Energy Program, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3600003, Israel.
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Sihi A, Pandey SK. Exploring temperature dependent electron-electron interaction of rocksalt SnS and SnSe within Matsubara-time domain. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2022; 34:245501. [PMID: 35313294 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac5f62] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Both experimental and theoretical studies show non-trivial topological behaviour in native rocksalt phase for SnS and SnSe and categorize these materials in topological crystalline insulators. Here, the detailed electronic structures studies of SnS and SnSe in the rocksalt phase are carried out using many-bodyGWbased theory and density functional theory both for ground states and temperature dependent excited states. The estimated values of fundamental direct bandgaps aroundL-point usingG0W0(mBJ) are ∼0.27 (∼0.13) eV and ∼0.37 (∼0.17) eV for SnS and SnSe, respectively. The strength of hybridization between Sn 5pand S 3p(Se 4p) orbitals for SnS (SnSe) shows strongk-dependence. The behaviour ofW¯(ω), which is the averaged value of diagonal matrix elements of fully screened Coulomb interaction, suggests to use full-GWmethod for exploring the excited states because the correlation effects within these two materials are relatively weak. The temperature dependent electronic structure calculations for SnS and SnSe provide linearly decreasing behaviour of bandgaps with rise in temperatures. The existence of collective excitation of quasiparticles in form of plasmon is predicted for these compounds, where the estimated values of plasmon frequency are ∼9.5 eV and ∼9.3 eV for SnS and SnSe, respectively. The imaginary part of self-energy and mass renormalization factor (Zk(ω)) due to electron-electron interaction (EEI) are also calculated alongW-L-Γ direction for both the materials, where the estimated ranges ofZk(ω) are 0.70 to 0.79 and 0.71 to 0.78 for SnS and SnSe, respectively, along thisk-direction. The present comparative study reveals that the behaviour of temperature dependent EEI for SnS and SnSe are the almost same and EEI is important for high temperature transport properties.
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- Antik Sihi
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand-175075, India
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- School of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand-175075, India
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Chiral structures of electric polarization vectors quantified by X-ray resonant scattering. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1769. [PMID: 35383159 PMCID: PMC8983710 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29359-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2021] [Accepted: 03/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Resonant elastic X-ray scattering (REXS) offers a unique tool to investigate solid-state systems providing spatial knowledge from diffraction combined with electronic information through the enhanced absorption process, allowing the probing of magnetic, charge, spin, and orbital degrees of spatial order together with electronic structure. A new promising application of REXS is to elucidate the chiral structure of electrical polarization emergent in a ferroelectric oxide superlattice in which the polarization vectors in the REXS amplitude are implicitly described through an anisotropic tensor corresponding to the quadrupole moment. Here, we present a detailed theoretical framework and analysis to quantitatively analyze the experimental results of Ti L-edge REXS of a polar vortex array formed in a PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattice. Based on this theoretical framework, REXS for polar chiral structures can become a useful tool similar to x-ray resonant magnetic scattering (XRMS), enabling a comprehensive study of both electric and magnetic REXS on the chiral structures. The polar chiral texture of the vortex or skyrmion structure in ferroelectric oxide PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattice attracts attention. Here, the authors report a theoretical framework to probe emergent chirality of electrical polarization textures.
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Ilyas H, Aslam S, Tauseef Qureshi M, Alam N, Yunus G, Ragab H, Akhtar Ali S, Saleem M. Study of electronic, thermoelectric and optical properties of environment friendly Mg doped CeO2 for energy harvesting devices. Chem Phys Lett 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2022.139464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Khan I, Ullah I, Haq IU, Ali A, Dahshan A, Ali Z, Ahmad I. Structural and optoelectronic properties of CsLnZnTe3 (Ln = La, Pr, Nd and Sm). J RARE EARTH 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jre.2022.03.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Varadwaj A, Miyake T. Geometrical‐, Electronic‐ and Optical Properties of Vanadium Dioxide: A Theoretical Perspective from Meta‐GGA SCAN. ChemistrySelect 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.202200171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Arpita Varadwaj
- CD-FMat National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Tsukuba Ibaraki Japan
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- CD-FMat National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Tsukuba Ibaraki Japan
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Bugnet M, Ederer M, Lazarov VK, Li L, Ramasse QM, Löffler S, Kepaptsoglou DM. Imaging the Spatial Distribution of Electronic States in Graphene Using Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy: Prospect of Orbital Mapping. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:116401. [PMID: 35363018 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.116401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2021] [Revised: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The spatial distributions of antibonding π^{*} and σ^{*} states in epitaxial graphene multilayers are mapped using electron energy-loss spectroscopy in a scanning transmission electron microscope. Inelastic channeling simulations validate the interpretation of the spatially resolved signals in terms of electronic orbitals, and demonstrate the crucial effect of the material thickness on the experimental capability to resolve the distribution of unoccupied states. This work illustrates the current potential of core-level electron energy-loss spectroscopy towards the direct visualization of electronic orbitals in a wide range of materials, of huge interest to better understand chemical bonding among many other properties at interfaces and defects in solids.
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- M Bugnet
- SuperSTEM Laboratory, SciTech Daresbury Campus, Daresbury WA4 4AD, United Kingdom
- School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
- Univ Lyon, CNRS, INSA Lyon, UCBL, MATEIS, UMR 5510, 69621 Villeurbanne, France
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- University Service Centre for Transmission Electron Microscopy, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10/E057-02, 1040 Wien, Austria
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- Department of Physics, University of York, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of West Virginia, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
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- SuperSTEM Laboratory, SciTech Daresbury Campus, Daresbury WA4 4AD, United Kingdom
- School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- University Service Centre for Transmission Electron Microscopy, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10/E057-02, 1040 Wien, Austria
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- SuperSTEM Laboratory, SciTech Daresbury Campus, Daresbury WA4 4AD, United Kingdom
- Department of Physics, University of York, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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Kore A, Ara N, Singh P. First principle based investigation of topological insulating phase in half-Heusler family Na YO ( Y= Ag, Au, and Cu). JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2022; 34:205501. [PMID: 35196267 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac57d7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The ternary half-Heusler compounds have shown great potential for realizing new 3D topological insulators. With band gap tuning and spin orbit coupling these compounds may undergo topological phase transitions. In present work, we explore the possibility of realizing a topological insulating phase in half-Heusler family NaYO (Y= Ag, Au, and Cu). We find that for NaAgO, external strain (∼19%) along with spin-orbit coupling (SOC), is required to achieve band-inversion at Γ high-symmetry point and leads to phase transition from trivial to non-trivial topological insulating phase. In case of NaAuO and NaCuO, non-trivial phase appears in their equilibrium lattice constant, hence only SOC is enough to achieve band-inversion leading to non-trivial topology. The non-centrosymmetric nature of crystal geometry leads to the formation of two twofold degenerate point nodes near the Fermi level.
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- Ashish Kore
- Department of Physics, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur-10 India
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- Department of Physics, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur-10 India
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- Department of Physics, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur-10 India
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Full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (LAPW) and APW plus local orbital (APW+lo) codes differ widely in both their user interfaces and in capabilities for calculations and analysis beyond their common central task of all-electron solution of the Kohn–Sham equations. However, that common central task opens a possible route to performance enhancement, namely to offload the basic LAPW/APW+lo algorithms to a library optimized purely for that purpose. To explore that opportunity, we have interfaced the Exciting-Plus (“EP”) LAPW/APW+lo DFT code with the highly optimized SIRIUS multi-functional DFT package. This simplest realization of the separation of concerns approach yields substantial performance over the base EP code via additional task parallelism without significant change in the EP source code or user interface. We provide benchmarks of the interfaced code against the original EP using small bulk systems, and demonstrate performance on a spin-crossover molecule and magnetic molecule that are of size and complexity at the margins of the capability of the EP code itself.
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Karkour S, Bouhemadou A, Allali D, Haddadi K, Bin-Omran S, Khenata R, Al-Douri Y, Ferhat Hamida A, Hadi A, Abd El-Rehim AF. Structural, elastic, electronic and optical properties of the newly synthesized selenides Tl2CdXSe4 (X = Ge, Sn). THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B 2022; 95:38. [DOI: 10.1140/epjb/s10051-022-00288-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2022] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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Song Q, Occhialini CA, Ergeçen E, Ilyas B, Amoroso D, Barone P, Kapeghian J, Watanabe K, Taniguchi T, Botana AS, Picozzi S, Gedik N, Comin R. Evidence for a single-layer van der Waals multiferroic. Nature 2022; 602:601-605. [PMID: 35197619 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04337-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Multiferroic materials have attracted wide interest because of their exceptional static1-3 and dynamical4-6 magnetoelectric properties. In particular, type-II multiferroics exhibit an inversion-symmetry-breaking magnetic order that directly induces ferroelectric polarization through various mechanisms, such as the spin-current or the inverse Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya effect3,7. This intrinsic coupling between the magnetic and dipolar order parameters results in high-strength magnetoelectric effects3,8. Two-dimensional materials possessing such intrinsic multiferroic properties have been long sought for to enable the harnessing of magnetoelectric coupling in nanoelectronic devices1,9,10. Here we report the discovery of type-II multiferroic order in a single atomic layer of the transition-metal-based van der Waals material NiI2. The multiferroic state of NiI2 is characterized by a proper-screw spin helix with given handedness, which couples to the charge degrees of freedom to produce a chirality-controlled electrical polarization. We use circular dichroic Raman measurements to directly probe the magneto-chiral ground state and its electromagnon modes originating from dynamic magnetoelectric coupling. Combining birefringence and second-harmonic-generation measurements with theoretical modelling and simulations, we detect a highly anisotropic electronic state that simultaneously breaks three-fold rotational and inversion symmetry, and supports polar order. The evolution of the optical signatures as a function of temperature and layer number surprisingly reveals an ordered magnetic polar state that persists down to the ultrathin limit of monolayer NiI2. These observations establish NiI2 and transition metal dihalides as a new platform for studying emergent multiferroic phenomena, chiral magnetic textures and ferroelectricity in the two-dimensional limit.
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- Qian Song
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Department of Material Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR-SPIN, c/o Università degli Studi 'G. D'Annunzio', Chieti, Italy.,NanoMat/Q-mat/CESAM, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR-SPIN, Area della Ricerca di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR-SPIN, c/o Università degli Studi 'G. D'Annunzio', Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Li S, Ye X, Feng C, Wang Y, Gao T, Ao B, Li D, Zhang G. Pressure-induced evolution of crystal and electronic structure of neptunium hydrides. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:4916-4924. [PMID: 35137738 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp05467h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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An extensive exploration of high-pressure phase diagrams of NpHx (x = 1-10) compounds was performed by using swarm-intelligence-based CALYPSO structure searches. We propose five stable hydrogen-rich clathrate phases (P4/nmm-NpH5, Cmcm-NpH7, Fm3̄m-NpH8, P63/mmc-NpH9, and Fm3̄m-NpH10) that are composed of unusual H cages with stoichiometries H20, H24, H29, and H32 in which the H atoms are weakly covalently bonded to one another, with neptunium atoms occupying centers of the cages. The electronic structure analyses show that these predicted hydrogen-rich structures are all metallic phases, and Np-H and H-H bonds are formed by ionic and covalent bond interactions, respectively. The charge transfer from the Np atom plays an important role in the stability of the proposed structures. All hydrogen-rich clathrate structures show superconductivity behavior in their respective stability pressure range. Our work is an important step in understanding the phase stability and bonding behavior of NpHx under extreme conditions and provides a valuable reference for experimental synthesis and identification of cage-like neptunium hydrides.
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- Shichang Li
- School of Science, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China.
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- Science and Technology on Surface Physics and Chemistry Laboratory, Jiangyou, 621908, China
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- School of Science, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China.
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- School of Science, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China.
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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- Science and Technology on Surface Physics and Chemistry Laboratory, Jiangyou, 621908, China
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- School of Science, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China. .,Institute for Advanced Sciences, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China
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- Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, 138632, Singapore.
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Weinbub J, Kosik R. Computational perspective on recent advances in quantum electronics: from electron quantum optics to nanoelectronic devices and systems. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2022; 34:163001. [PMID: 35008077 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac49c6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Quantum electronics has significantly evolved over the last decades. Where initially the clear focus was on light-matter interactions, nowadays approaches based on the electron's wave nature have solidified themselves as additional focus areas. This development is largely driven by continuous advances in electron quantum optics, electron based quantum information processing, electronic materials, and nanoelectronic devices and systems. The pace of research in all of these areas is astonishing and is accompanied by substantial theoretical and experimental advancements. What is particularly exciting is the fact that the computational methods, together with broadly available large-scale computing resources, have matured to such a degree so as to be essential enabling technologies themselves. These methods allow to predict, analyze, and design not only individual physical processes but also entire devices and systems, which would otherwise be very challenging or sometimes even out of reach with conventional experimental capabilities. This review is thus a testament to the increasingly towering importance of computational methods for advancing the expanding field of quantum electronics. To that end, computational aspects of a representative selection of recent research in quantum electronics are highlighted where a major focus is on the electron's wave nature. By categorizing the research into concrete technological applications, researchers and engineers will be able to use this review as a source for inspiration regarding problem-specific computational methods.
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- Josef Weinbub
- Christian Doppler Laboratory for High Performance TCAD, Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien, Austria
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- Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien, Austria
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Stein F, Hutter J. Double-hybrid density functionals for the condensed phase: Gradients, stress tensor, and auxiliary-density matrix method acceleration. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:074107. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0082327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Frederick Stein
- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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Perez I, Sosa VJ, Gamboa Perera F, Enriquez-Carrejo JL, Mixteco Sanchez JC. Role of lithium intercalation in fluorine-doped tin oxide thin films: Ab-initio calculations and experiment. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:094701. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0085531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Israel Perez
- Physics and Mathematics, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
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- Applied Physics, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Unidad Mérida, Mexico
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Zaheer A, Zahra SA, Iqbal MZ, Mahmood A, Khan SA, Rizwan S. Nickel-adsorbed two-dimensional Nb 2C MXene for enhanced energy storage applications. RSC Adv 2022; 12:4624-4634. [PMID: 35425492 PMCID: PMC8981252 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra00014h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Owing to the tremendous energy storage capacity of two-dimensional transition metal carbides (MXenes), they have been efficiently utilized as a promising candidate in the field of super-capacitors. The energy storage capacity of MXenes can be further enhanced using metal dopants. Herein, we have reported the synthesis of pristine and nickel doped niobium-carbide (Nb2C) MXenes, their computational and electrochemical properties. Upon introduction of nickel (Ni) the TDOS increases and a continuous DOS pattern is observed which indicates coupling between Ni and pristine MXene. The alterations in the DOS, predominantly in the nearby region of the Fermi level are profitable for our electrochemical applications. Additionally, the Ni-doped sample shows a significant capacitive performance of 666.67 F g-1 which can be attributed to the additional active sites generated by doping with Ni. It is worth noting that doped MXenes exhibited a capacitance retention of 81% up to 10 000 cycles. The current study unveils the opportunities of using MXenes with different metal dopants and hypothesize on their performance for energy storage devices.
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- Ayesha Zaheer
- Physics Characterization and Simulations Lab (PCSL), Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences (SNS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Islamabad 44000 Pakistan
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- Physics Characterization and Simulations Lab (PCSL), Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences (SNS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Islamabad 44000 Pakistan
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- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, United Arab Emirates University PO Box 15551 Al-Ain United Arab Emirates
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (SCBE), The University of Sydney (USyd) Sydney Australia
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- New Technologies Research Centre, University of West Bohemia Univerzitni 2732 306 14 Pilsen Czech Republic
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- Physics Characterization and Simulations Lab (PCSL), Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences (SNS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Islamabad 44000 Pakistan
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Yadav A, Kumar S, Muruganathan M, Kumar R. Topological phase transition associated with structural phase transition in ternary half Heusler compound LiAuBi. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2022; 34:145501. [PMID: 35008074 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac49c8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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In this article, we report detailed theoretical investigations of topological phases in non-centrosymmetric half Heusler compound LiAuBi up to a pressure of 30 GPa. It is found that the compound forms into a dynamically stable face-centered cubic (FCC) lattice structure of space groupF4¯3m(216) at ambient pressure. The compound is topologically non-trivial at ambient pressure, but undergoes a quantum phase transition to trivial topological phase at 23.4 GPa. However, the detailed investigations show a structural phase transition from FCC lattice (space group 216) to a honeycomb lattice (space group 194) at 13 GPa, which is also associated with a non-trivial to trivial topological phase transition. Further investigations show that the compound also carries appreciable thermoelectric properties at ambient pressure. The figure of merit (ZT) increases from 0.21 at room temperature to a maximum value of 0.22 at 500 K. The theoretical findings show its potential for practical applications in spintronics as well as thermoelectricity, therefore LiAuBi needs to be synthesized and investigated experimentally for its applications.
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- Anita Yadav
- T-GraMS Laboratory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab-140001, India
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- School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
- Manufacturing Flagship, CSIRO, Lindfield West, New South Wales 2070, Australia
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- T-GraMS Laboratory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab-140001, India
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Hybrid exchange-correlation functionals provide superior electronic structure and optical properties of semiconductors or insulators as compared to semilocal exchange-correlation potentials due to admixing a portion of the non-local exact exchange potential from a Hartree–Fock theory. Since the non-local potential does not commute with the position operator, the momentum matrix elements do not fully capture the oscillator strength, while the length-gauge velocity matrix elements do. So far, length-gauge velocity matrix elements were not accessible in the all-electron full-potential WIEN2k package. We demonstrate the feasibility of computing length-gauge matrix elements in WIEN2k for a hybrid exchange-correlation functional based on a finite difference approach. To illustrate the implementation we determined matrix elements for optical transitions between the conduction and valence bands in GaAs, GaN, (CH3NH3)PbI3 and a monolayer MoS2. The non-locality of the Hartree–Fock exact exchange potential leads to a strong enhancement of the oscillator strength as noticed recently in calculations employing pseudopotentials (Laurien and Rubel: arXiv:2111.14772 (2021)). We obtained an analytical expression for the enhancement factor for the difference in eigenvalues not captured by the kinetic energy. It is expected that these results can also be extended to other non-local potentials, e.g., a many-body GW approximation.
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Hexatetra-Carbon: A Novel Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Allotrope of Carbon. COMPUTATION 2022; 10:19. [PMID: 35910342 PMCID: PMC8939851 DOI: 10.3390/computation10020019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2021] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Employing first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT), we designed a novel two-dimensional (2D) elemental monolayer allotrope of carbon called hexatetra-carbon. In the hexatetra-carbon structure, each carbon atom bonds with its four neighboring atoms in a 2D double layer crystal structure, which is formed by a network of carbon hexagonal prisms. Based on our calculations, it is found that hexatetra-carbon exhibits a good structural stability as confirmed by its rather high calculated cohesive energy −6.86 eV/atom, and the absence of imaginary phonon modes in its phonon dispersion spectra. Moreover, compared with its hexagonal counterpart, i.e., graphene, which is a gapless material, our designed hexatetra-carbon is a semiconductor with an indirect band gap of 2.20 eV. Furthermore, with a deeper look at the hexatetra-carbon, one finds that this novel monolayer may be obtained from bilayer graphene under external mechanical strain conditions. As a semiconductor with a moderate band gap in the visible light range, once synthesized, hexatetra-carbon would show promising applications in new opto-electronics technologies.
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Organic Emitters Showing Excited-States Energy Inversion: An Assessment of MC-PDFT and Correlation Energy Functionals Beyond TD-DFT. COMPUTATION 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/computation10020013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The lowest-energy singlet (S1) and triplet (T1) excited states of organic conjugated chromophores are known to be accurately calculated by modern wavefunction and Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) methods, with the accuracy of the latter heavily relying on the exchange-correlation functional employed. However, there are challenging cases for which this cannot be the case, due to the fact that those excited states are not exclusively formed by single excitations and/or are affected by marked correlation effects, and thus TD-DFT might fall short. We will tackle here a set of molecules belonging to the azaphenalene family, for which research recently documented an inversion of the relative energy of S1 and T1 excited states giving rise to a negative energy difference (ΔEST) between them and, thereby, contrary to most of the systems thus far treated by TD-DFT. Since methods going beyond standard TD-DFT are not extensively applied to excited-state calculations and considering how challenging this case is for the molecules investigated, we will prospectively employ here a set of non-standard methods (Multi-Configurational Pair Density Functional Theory or MC-PDFT) and correlation functionals (i.e., Lie–Clementi and Colle–Salvetti) relying not only on the electronic density but also on some modifications considering the intricate electronic structure of these systems.
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Kovács P, Tran F, Hanbury A, Madsen GKH. Similarity Clustering for Representative Sets of Inorganic Solids for Density Functional Testing. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:441-447. [PMID: 34919396 PMCID: PMC8757462 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Benchmarking DFT functionals is complicated since the results highly depend on which properties and materials were used in the process. Unwanted biases can be introduced if a data set contains too many examples of very similar materials. We show that a clustering based on the distribution of density gradient and kinetic energy density is able to identify groups of chemically distinct solids. We then propose a method to create smaller data sets or rebalance existing data sets in a way that no region of the meta-GGA descriptor space is overrepresented, yet the new data set reproduces average errors of the original set as closely as possible. We apply the method to an existing set of 44 inorganic solids and suggest a representative set of seven solids. The representative sets generated with this method can be used to make more general benchmarks or to train new functionals.
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- Péter Kovács
- Institute
of Materials Chemistry, Technical University
of Vienna, Getreidemarkt 9/165-TC, A-1060 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute
of Materials Chemistry, Technical University
of Vienna, Getreidemarkt 9/165-TC, A-1060 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute
for Information Systems Engineering, Technical
University of Vienna, Favoritenstrasse 9-11/194, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute
of Materials Chemistry, Technical University
of Vienna, Getreidemarkt 9/165-TC, A-1060 Vienna, Austria
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Khatun A, Sk S, Pandey SK. Understanding the Seebeck coefficient of LaNiO 3compound in the temperature range 300-620 K. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2022; 34:125702. [PMID: 34942611 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac462a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Transition metal oxides have been attracted much attention in thermoelectric community from the last few decades. In the present work, we have synthesized LaNiO3by a simple solution combustion process. To analyse the crystal structure and structural parameters we have used Rietveld refinement method wherein FullProf software is employed. The room temperature x-ray diffraction indicates the rhombohedral structure with space groupR3¯c(No. 167). The refined values of lattice parameters area=b=c= 5.4071 Å. Temperature dependent Seebeck coefficient (S) of this compound has been investigated by using experimental and computational tools. The measurement ofSis conducted in the temperature range 300-620 K. The measured values ofSin the entire temperature range have negative sign that indicates n-type character of the compound. The value ofSis found to be ∼-8μV/K at 300 K and at 620 K this value is ∼-12μV/K. The electronic structure calculation is carried out using DFT +Umethod due to having strong correlation in LaNiO3. The calculation predicts the metallic ground state of the compound. Temperature dependentSis calculated using BoltzTraP package and compared with experiment. The best matching between experimental and calculated values ofSis observed when self-interaction correction is employed as double counting correction in spin-polarized DFT +U(=1 eV) calculation. Based on the computational results maximum power factors are also calculated for p-type and n-type doping of this compound.
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- Arzena Khatun
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand-175075, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand-175075, India
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- School of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand-175075, India
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Maksimovic N, Eilbott DH, Cookmeyer T, Wan F, Rusz J, Nagarajan V, Haley SC, Maniv E, Gong A, Faubel S, Hayes IM, Bangura A, Singleton J, Palmstrom JC, Winter L, McDonald R, Jang S, Ai P, Lin Y, Ciocys S, Gobbo J, Werman Y, Oppeneer PM, Altman E, Lanzara A, Analytis JG. Evidence for a delocalization quantum phase transition without symmetry breaking in CeCoIn 5. Science 2022; 375:76-81. [PMID: 34855511 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz4566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The study of quantum phase transitions that are not clearly associated with broken symmetry is a major effort in condensed matter physics, particularly in regard to the problem of high-temperature superconductivity, for which such transitions are thought to underlie the mechanism of superconductivity itself. Here we argue that the putative quantum critical point in the prototypical unconventional superconductor CeCoIn5 is characterized by the delocalization of electrons in a transition that connects two Fermi surfaces of different volumes, with no apparent broken symmetry. Drawing on established theory of f-electron metals, we discuss an interpretation for such a transition that involves the fractionalization of spin and charge, a model that effectively describes the anomalous transport behavior we measured for the Hall effect.
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- Nikola Maksimovic
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 97545, USA
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 97545, USA
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 97545, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Peng Y, Gu C, Liu B, Cai MQ, Yang J. Interface-engineering studies on the photoelectric properties and stability of the CsSnI 3–SnS heterostructure. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:24123-24129. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cp02742a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The stability of Sn-based perovskites has always been the main obstacle to their application.
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- Yongyi Peng
- Hunan Key Laboratory for Super-microstructure and Ultrafast Process, School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, China
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- Hunan Key Laboratory for Super-microstructure and Ultrafast Process, School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, China
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- Hunan Key Laboratory for Super-microstructure and Ultrafast Process, School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, China
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- School of Physics and Electronics Science, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, Hunan, China
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- Hunan Key Laboratory for Super-microstructure and Ultrafast Process, School of Physics and Electronics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, China
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Yalameha S, Nourbakhsh Z, Vashaee D. Topological phase and thermoelectric properties of bialkali bismuthide compounds (Na, K) 2RbBi from first-principles. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2021; 34:105702. [PMID: 34905744 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac431d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We report the topological phase and thermoelectric properties of bialkali bismuthide compounds (Na, K)2RbBi, as yet hypothetical. The topological phase transitions of these compounds under hydrostatic pressure are investigated. The calculated topological surface states andZ2topological index confirm the nontrivial topological phase. The electronic properties and transport coefficients are obtained using the density functional theory combined with the Boltzmann transport equation. The relaxation times are determined using the deformation potential theory to calculate the electronic thermal and electrical conductivity. The calculated mode Grüneisen parameters are substantial, indicating strong anharmonic acoustic phonons scattering, which results in an exceptionally low lattice thermal conductivity. These compounds also have a favorable power factor leading to a relatively flat p-type figure-of-merit over a broad temperature range. Furthermore, the mechanical properties and phonon band dispersions show that these structures are mechanically and dynamically stable. Therefore, they offer excellent candidates for practical applications over a wide range of temperatures.
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- Shahram Yalameha
- Faculty of Physics, University of Isfahan, 81746-73441, Isfahan, Iran
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- Faculty of Physics, University of Isfahan, 81746-73441, Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606, United States of America
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606, United States of America
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Liao K, Shibata K, Mizoguchi T. Nanoscale Investigation of Local Thermal Expansion at SrTiO 3 Grain Boundaries by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy. NANO LETTERS 2021; 21:10416-10422. [PMID: 34854692 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The presence of grain boundaries (GBs) has a great impact on the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of polycrystals. However, direct measurement of local expansion of GBs remains challenging for conventional methods due to the lack of spatial resolution. In this work, we utilized the valence electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) in a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) to directly measure the CTE of Σ5 and 45°GBs of SrTiO3 at a temperature range between 373 and 973 K. A CTE that was about 3 times larger was observed in Σ5 GB along the direction normal to GB plane, while only a 1.4 time enhancement was found in the 45° GB. Our result provides direct evidence that GBs contribute to the enhancement of CTE in polycrystals. Also, this work has revealed how thermodynamic properties are varied in different GB structures and demonstrated the potential of EELS for probing local thermal properties with nanometer-scale resolution.
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- Kunyen Liao
- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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Mejia-Rodriguez D, Kunitsa A, Aprà E, Govind N. Scalable Molecular GW Calculations: Valence and Core Spectra. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:7504-7517. [PMID: 34855381 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We present a scalable implementation of the GW approximation using Gaussian atomic orbitals to study the valence and core ionization spectroscopies of molecules. The implementation of the standard spectral decomposition approach to the screened-Coulomb interaction, as well as a contour-deformation method, is described. We have implemented both of these approaches using the robust variational fitting approximation to the four-center electron repulsion integrals. We have utilized the MINRES solver with the contour-deformation approach to reduce the computational scaling by 1 order of magnitude. A complex heuristic in the quasiparticle equation solver further allows a speed-up of the computation of core and semicore ionization energies. Benchmark tests using the GW100 and CORE65 data sets and the carbon 1s binding energy of the well-studied ethyl trifluoroacetate, or ESCA molecule, were performed to validate the accuracy of our implementation. We also demonstrate and discuss the parallel performance and computational scaling of our implementation using a range of water clusters of increasing size.
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- Daniel Mejia-Rodriguez
- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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Yamaguchi M, Ishii A, Oikawa I, Yamazaki Y, Imura M, Takamura H. Heat-Resistant Black Insulative Thin Films for Flat-Panel Displays in Al-Doped Ag-Fe-O Systems. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:57971-57980. [PMID: 34839655 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c17599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Multilayer antireflection (AR) coatings require a material with a large and constant absorption coefficient over the whole visible range and thermal stability. Coatings for use in touch panel displays are also required to be electrically insulative. In this study, 60 mol % Ag-40 mol % (Fe1-xAlx)-O (x = 0, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, and 1.0) thin films are prepared by pulsed laser deposition, and their optical properties, electric resistance, and thermal stability are clarified by combining the experimental data and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Over the visible range, large and constant absorption coefficients are obtained for all compositions. The standard deviations of the absorption coefficients of the x = 0.75 and 1.0 samples are found to be smaller than those of conventional materials like graphite and CrOx. High sheet resistance (Rsheet > 107 Ω·sq-1) is also confirmed. It is determined that nanometer-sized Ag dispersed into a matrix, which was confirmed to be ionic Ag in the matrix phase, is responsible for the absorption at a shorter visible light range and insulative nature even at high Ag content. The films with high Al content are stable up to 500 °C. The potential of these black insulative Ag-Al-Fe-O thin films for use as black AR coatings is confirmed by optical simulations with multilayer stacks.
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- Mina Yamaguchi
- Department of Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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- Thin Film Division, Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd., Nagahama 529-0292, Japan
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- Thin Film Division, Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd., Nagahama 529-0292, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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Baaalla N, Hemissi H, Hlil E, Masrour R, Benyoussef A, Kenz AE. Electronic and optical properties of organic-inorganic (CuII /ReVII)-heterobimetallic L-Arginine complex: Experimental and Computational studies. J Mol Struct 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2021.131153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Mitobe T, Hoshi K, Kasem MR, Kiyama R, Usui H, Yamashita A, Higashinaka R, Matsuda TD, Aoki Y, Katase T, Goto Y, Mizuguchi Y. Superconductivity in In-doped AgSnBiTe 3 with possible band inversion. Sci Rep 2021; 11:22885. [PMID: 34819583 PMCID: PMC8613227 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-02341-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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We investigated the chemical pressure effects on structural and electronic properties of SnTe-based material using partial substitution of Sn by Ag0.5Bi0.5, which results in lattice shrinkage. For Sn1-2x(AgBi)xTe, single-phase polycrystalline samples were obtained with a wide range of x. On the basis of band calculations, we confirmed that the Sn1-2x(AgBi)xTe system is basically possessing band inversion and topologically preserved electronic states. To explore new superconducting phases related to the topological electronic states, we investigated the In-doping effects on structural and superconducting properties for x = 0.33 (AgSnBiTe3). For (AgSnBi)(1-y)/3InyTe, single-phase polycrystalline samples were obtained for y = 0-0.5 by high-pressure synthesis. Superconductivity was observed for y = 0.2-0.5. For y = 0.4, the transition temperature estimated from zero-resistivity state was 2.4 K, and the specific heat investigation confirmed the emergence of bulk superconductivity. Because the presence of band inversion was theoretically predicted, and the parameters obtained from specific heat analyses were comparable to In-doped SnTe, we expect that the (AgSnBi)(1-y)/3InyTe and other (Ag, In, Sn, Bi)Te phases are candidate systems for studying topological superconductivity.
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- Tsubasa Mitobe
- Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1, Minami-osawa, Hachioji, 192-0397, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1, Minami-osawa, Hachioji, 192-0397, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1, Minami-osawa, Hachioji, 192-0397, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1, Minami-osawa, Hachioji, 192-0397, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Materials Science, Shimane University, 1060, Nishikawatsucho, Matsue, 690-8504, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1, Minami-osawa, Hachioji, 192-0397, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1, Minami-osawa, Hachioji, 192-0397, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1, Minami-osawa, Hachioji, 192-0397, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1, Minami-osawa, Hachioji, 192-0397, Japan
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- Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori, Yokohama, 226-8503, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1, Minami-osawa, Hachioji, 192-0397, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1, Minami-osawa, Hachioji, 192-0397, Japan.
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Density Functional Theory Study of Metal and Metal-Oxide Nucleation and Growth on the Anatase TiO2(101) Surface. COMPUTATION 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/computation9110125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Experimental studies have shown the possible production of hydrogen through photocatalytic water splitting using metal oxide (MOy) nanoparticles attached to an anatase TiO2 surface. In this work, we performed density functional theory (DFT) calculations to provide a detailed description of the stability and geometry of MxOy clusters M = Cu, Ni, Co, Fe and Mn, x = 1–5, and y = 0–5 on the anatase TiO2(101) surface. It is found that unsaturated 2-fold-coordinated O-sites may serve as nucleation centers for the growth of metal clusters. The formation energy of Ni-containing clusters on the anatase surface is larger than for other M clusters. In addition, the Nin adsorption energy increases with cluster size n, which makes the formation of bigger Ni clusters plausible as confirmed by transition electron microscopy images. Another particularity for Ni-containing clusters is that the adsorption energy per atom gets larger when the O-content is reduced, while for other M atoms it remains almost constant or, as for Mn, even decreases. This trend is in line with experimental results. Also provided is a discussion of the oxidation states of M5Oy clusters based on their magnetic moments and Bader charges and their possible reduction with oxygen depletion.
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Skaggs CM, Siegfried PE, Kang CJ, Brown CM, Chen F, Ma L, Ehrlich SN, Xin Y, Croft M, Xu W, Lapidus SH, Ghimire NJ, Tan X. Iridate Li 8IrO 6: An Antiferromagnetic Insulator. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:17201-17211. [PMID: 34735136 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A polycrystalline iridate Li8IrO6 material was prepared via heating Li2O and IrO2 starting materials in a sealed quartz tube at 650 °C for 48 h. The structure was determined from Rietveld refinement of room-temperature powder neutron diffraction data. Li8IrO6 adopts the nonpolar space group R3̅ with Li atoms occupying the tetrahedral and octahedral sites, which is supported by the electron diffraction and solid-state 7Li NMR. This results in a crystal structure consisting of LiO4 tetrahedral layers alternating with mixed IrO6 and LiO6 octahedral layers along the crystallographic c-axis. The +4 oxidation state of Ir4+ was confirmed by near-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy. An in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction study of Li8IrO6 indicates that the sample is stable up to 1000 °C and exhibits no structural transitions. Magnetic measurements suggest long-range antiferromagnetic ordering with a Néel temperature (TN) of 4 K, which is corroborated by heat capacity measurements. The localized effective moment μeff (Ir) = 1.73 μB and insulating character indicate that Li8IrO6 is a correlated insulator. First-principles calculations support the nonpolar crystal structure and reveal the insulating behavior both in paramagnetic and antiferromagnetic states.
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- Callista M Skaggs
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, United States.,Quantum Science and Engineering Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, United States
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- Department of Physics, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, United States.,Quantum Science and Engineering Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, United States
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First-Principle Investigations on the Electronic and Transport Properties of PbBi 2Te 2X 2 (X = S/Se/Te) Monolayers. NANOMATERIALS 2021; 11:nano11112979. [PMID: 34835743 PMCID: PMC8624905 DOI: 10.3390/nano11112979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 10/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This paper reports first-principles calculations on PbBi2Te2S2, PbBi2Te2Se2 and PbBi2Te4 monolayers. The strain effects on their electronic and thermoelectric properties as well as on their stability have been investigated. Without strain, the PbBi2Te4 monolayer exhibits highest Seebeck coefficient with a maximum value of 671 μV/K. Under tensile strain the highest power factor are 12.38×1011 Wm−1K−2s−1, 10.74×1011 Wm−1K−2s−1 and 6.51×1011 Wm−1K−2s−1 for PbBi2Te2S2, PbBi2Te2Se2 and PbBi2Te4 at 3%, 2% and 1% tensile strains, respectively. These values are 85.9%, 55.0% and 3.3% larger than those of the unstrained structures.
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