Design and exploration of semiconductors from first principles: A review of recent advances

F Oba, Y Kumagai - Applied Physics Express, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent first-principles approaches to semiconductors are reviewed, with an emphasis on
theoretical insight into emerging materials and in silico exploration of as-yet-unreported …

The new nitrides: Layered, ferroelectric, magnetic, metallic and superconducting nitrides to boost the GaN photonics and electronics eco-system

D Jena, R Page, J Casamento, P Dang… - Japanese Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The nitride semiconductor materials GaN, AlN, and InN, and their alloys and
heterostructures have been investigated extensively in the last 3 decades, leading to several …

Valence electron concentration as an indicator for mechanical properties in rocksalt structure nitrides, carbides and carbonitrides

K Balasubramanian, SV Khare, D Gall - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
First-principles calculations are employed to determine the mechanical properties of rock-
salt structure binary and ternary transition metal nitrides, carbides, and carbonitrides from …

Transition-metal-nitride-based thin films as novel energy harvesting materials

P Eklund, S Kerdsongpanya, B Alling - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The last few years have seen a rise in the interest in early transition-metal and rare-earth
nitrides, primarily based on ScN and CrN, for energy harvesting by thermoelectricity and …

Energetics of point defects in rocksalt structure transition metal nitrides: Thermodynamic reasons for deviations from stoichiometry

K Balasubramanian, SV Khare, D Gall - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
First principle calculations of point defect formation energies in group 3–6 transition metal
(Me) nitrides MeN x are employed to explain the thermodynamic reasons for the large …

Reversal of Band-Ordering Leads to High Hole Mobility in Strained p-type Scandium Nitride

S Rudra, D Rao, S Poncé, B Saha - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Low hole mobility of nitride semiconductors is a significant impediment to realizing their high-
efficiency device applications. Scandium nitride (ScN), an emerging rocksalt indirect band …

[HTML][HTML] Optical constants and band gap of wurtzite Al1− xScxN/Al2O3 prepared by magnetron sputter epitaxy for scandium concentrations up to x= 0.41

M Baeumler, Y Lu, N Kurz, L Kirste… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Wurtzite Al 1− x Sc x N thin films with scandium Sc concentrations up to x= 0.41 were
prepared by reactive pulsed DC magnetron co-sputtering at heater temperatures between …

: Quasiparticle self-consistent with ladder diagrams in

B Cunningham, M Grüning, D Pashov… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We present an extension of the quasiparticle self-consistent GW approximation (QS GW)[T.
Kotani, Phys. Rev. B 76, 165106 (2007) 10.1103/PhysRevB. 76.165106] to include vertex …

Zirconium nitride: A viable candidate for photonics and plasmonics?

P Patsalas - Thin Solid Films, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, transition metal nitrides received attention as potential alternative materials for
plasmonics due to their high electron conductivity and mobility, high melting point, chemical …

Development of semiconducting ScN

B Biswas, B Saha - Physical Review Materials, 2019 - APS
Since the 1960s advances in electronic and optoelectronic device technologies have been
primarily orchestrated by III-V semiconductors, which have led to an age of consumer …