Control of defect processes in photovoltaic materials is essential for realizing high-efficiency
solar cells and related optoelectronic devices. Native defects and extrinsic dopants tune the …

The Materials Genome Initiative, a national effort to introduce new materials into the market
faster and at lower cost, has made significant progress in computational simulation and …

For the case of n-type doping of β-Ga2O3 by group 14 dopants (C, Si, Ge, Sn), a defect
phase diagram is constructed from defect equilibria calculated over a range of temperatures …

ZnSnN2 is an Earth-abundant semiconductor analogous to the III–nitrides with potential as a
solar absorber due to its direct bandgap, steep absorption onset, and disorder-driven …

Polycrystalline thin film copper chalcogenide solar cells show remarkable efficiencies, and
analogous but less-explored semiconducting materials may hold similar promise. With …

Copper nitride (Cu3N) thin films were grown by reactive sputtering using a high-throughput
combinatorial approach with orthogonal gradients of substrate temperature and target …

For decades, progress in the field of optical (including solar) energy conversion was
dominated by advances in the conventional concentrating optics and materials design. In …

Combinatorial experiments involve synthesis of sample libraries with lateral composition
gradients requiring spatially resolved characterization of structure and properties. Because …

Abstract Development of alternative thin film photovoltaic technologies is an important
research topic because of the potential of low‐cost, high‐efficiency solar cells to produce …

Discovery of novel semiconducting materials is needed for solar energy conversion and
other optoelectronic applications. However, emerging low‐dimensional solar absorbers …