Solute diffusion by self-interstitial defects and radiation-induced segregation in ferritic Fe–X (X= Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, P, Si) dilute alloys

L Messina, T Schuler, M Nastar, MC Marinica, P Olsson - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
This work investigates solute transport due to self-interstitial defects and radiation induced
segregation tendencies in dilute ferritic alloys, by computing the transport coefficients of …

Efficient and transferable machine learning potentials for the simulation of crystal defects in bcc Fe and W

AM Goryaeva, J Dérès, C Lapointe, P Grigorev… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Data-driven, or machine learning (ML), approaches have become viable alternatives to
semiempirical methods to construct interatomic potentials, due to their capacity to accurately …

First-principles analysis of solute diffusion in dilute bcc Fe- alloys

CD Versteylen, NH Van Dijk, MHF Sluiter - Physical review B, 2017 - APS
The diffusivities of substitutional impurity elements in iron have been computed with ab inito
electronic density functional techniques, using exchange-correlation functional PW91 …

Theory of reactions between hydrogen and group-III acceptors in silicon

J Coutinho, D Gomes, VJB Torres, TO Abdul Fattah… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The thermodynamics of several reactions involving atomic and molecular hydrogen with
group-III acceptors is investigated. The results provide a first-principles-level account of …

Theory of shallow and deep boron defects in -SiC

VJB Torres, I Capan, J Coutinho - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Despite advances toward improving the quality of p-type 4H-SiC substrates and layers, we
still have no model capable of accounting for the multitude of boron-related optical, junction …

Hydrogen bubble nucleation by self-clustering: density functional theory and statistical model studies using tungsten as a model system

J Hou, XS Kong, J Sun, YW You, X Wu, CS Liu… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Low-energy, high-flux hydrogen irradiation is known to induce bubble formation in tungsten,
but its atomistic mechanisms remain little understood. Using first-principles calculations and …

Effect of Zr and Al addition on nanocluster formation in oxide dispersion strengthened steel-An ab initio study

S Mohan, G Kaur, BK Panigrahi, C David… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Conventional oxide dispersion strengthened steels are characterized by thermally stable,
high density of Y–Ti–O nanoclusters which are responsible for their high creep strength. Ti …

Dynamics of hydrogen in silicon at finite temperatures from first principles

D Gomes, VP Markevich, AR Peaker… - physica status solidi …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen defects in silicon still hold unsolved problems, whose disclosure is fundamental
for future advances in Si technologies. Among the open issues is the mechanism for the …

Influence of vibrational entropy on the concentrations of oxygen interstitial clusters and uranium vacancies in nonstoichiometric

A Soulié, F Bruneval, MC Marinica, S Murphy… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
We combine density functional theory (DFT) formation energies and empirical potential
calculations of vibrational free energies to calculate the free energies of formation of point …

First-principles investigation of the impact of stress and lattice vibration on the hyperfine interactions of the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond

M Liu, X Zhao, T Xie, S Xu, F Shi, CK Duan - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The hyperfine interactions between the electronic spin of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center
in diamond and its surrounding nuclear spins are essential for quantum sensing and …