Germanium is being actively considered by the semiconductor community as a mainstream
material for nanoelectronic applications. Germanium has advantageous materials …

Perovskites and related oxides are a very important class of functional materials that exhibit
a range of stoichiometries and crystal structures. The oxygen diffusion mechanisms and …

Solid oxide fuel cells are of technological interest as they offer high efficiency for energy
conversion in a clean way. Understanding fundamental aspects of oxygen self-diffusion in …

Praise for the First Edition" The book goes beyond the usual textbook in that it provides more
specific examples of real-world defect physics... an easy reading, broad introductory …

Molecular dynamics simulations, used in conjunction with a set of Born model potentials,
have been employed to study oxygen transport in tetragonal La2NiO4+ δ. We predict an …

Density functional theory calculations (DFT) are used to investigate the strain-induced
changes to the electronic structure of biaxially strained (parallel to the (001),(110) and (111) …

The diffusion of self-atoms and n-type dopants such as phosphorus, arsenic, and antimony
in germanium was studied by means of isotopically controlled multilayer structures doped …

Silicon and silicon germanium are the archetypical elemental and alloy semiconductor
materials for nanoelectronic, sensor, and photovoltaic applications. The investigation of …

Diffusion of silicon (Si) and germanium (Ge) in silicon-germanium Si 1− x Ge x-isotope
heterostructures with Ge contents x= 0⁠, 0.05, 0.25, 0.45, and 0.70 was investigated in a …

The compositional dependence of the cubic lattice parameter in Ge 1− y Sn y alloys has
been revisited. Large 1000-atom supercell ab initio simulations confirm earlier theoretical …