EPW is an open-source software for ab initio calculations of electron–phonon interactions
and related materials properties. The code combines density functional perturbation theory …

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 …

Acoustic phonons in piezoelectric materials strongly couple to electrons through a
macroscopic electric field. We show that this coupling leads to a momentum-dependent …

Strain engineering is a widely used technique for enhancing the mobility of charge carriers
in semiconductors, but its effect is not fully understood. In this work, we perform first …

As demand for higher integration density and smaller devices grows, silicon‐based
complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor (CMOS) devices will soon reach their ultimate …

The realm of chemiresistive gas sensors has witnessed a notable surge in interest in two-
dimensional (2D) materials. The advancement of high-performance 2D gas sensing …

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a wide-gap semiconductor with numerous applications in
photocatalysis, photovoltaics, and neuromorphic computing. The unique functional …

Abstract 2D semiconductors offer a promising pathway to replace silicon in next-generation
electronics. Among their many advantages, 2D materials possess atomically-sharp surfaces …

A first-principles computational method with self-consistent on-site and intersite Hubbard
functionals is able to treat local and nonlocal Coulomb interactions on an equal footing. To …

Electron mobility in nitride semiconductors is limited by electron–phonon, defect, grain-
boundary, and dislocation scatterings. Scandium nitride (ScN), an emerging rocksalt indirect …