Ternary nitride materials: Fundamentals and emerging device applications

AL Greenaway, CL Melamed… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Interest in inorganic ternary nitride materials has grown rapidly over the past few decades,
as their diverse chemistries and structures make them appealing for a variety of applications …

Defect modeling and control in structurally and compositionally complex materials

X Zhang, J Kang, SH Wei - Nature Computational Science, 2023 - nature.com
Conventional computational approaches for modeling defects face difficulties when applied
to complex materials, mainly due to the vast configurational space of defects. In this …

Experimental synthesis of theoretically predicted multivalent ternary nitride materials

A Zakutayev, SR Bauers, S Lany - Chemistry of Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
Multivalent ternary nitride materials, which combine two metal cations with a nitrogen anion
in equal amounts and charge balanced stoichiometry, tend to have relatively simple …

Monte Carlo simulations of disorder in and the effects on the electronic structure

S Lany, AN Fioretti, PP Zawadzki, LT Schelhas… - Physical Review …, 2017 - APS
In multinary compound semiconductors, cation disorder can decisively alter the electronic
properties and impact potential applications. ZnSn N 2 is a ternary nitride of interest for …

Emerging earth-abundant solar absorbers

JW Choi, B Shin, P Gorai, RLZ Hoye, R Palgrave - 2022 - ACS Publications
Developing solar absorbers that are efficient, low-cost, stable, and composed of nontoxic,
Earth-abundant elements has long been the holy grail of nextgeneration photovoltaics (PV) …

Utilizing site disorder in the development of new energy-relevant semiconductors

RR Schnepf, JJ Cordell, MB Tellekamp… - ACS Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Controlling site disorder in ternary and multinary compounds enables tuning optical and
electronic properties at fixed lattice constants and stoichiometries, moving beyond many of …

Zinc titanium nitride semiconductor toward durable photoelectrochemical applications

AL Greenaway, S Ke, T Culman, KR Talley… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photoelectrochemical fuel generation is a promising route to sustainable liquid fuels
produced from water and captured carbon dioxide with sunlight as the energy input …

A search for new back contacts for CdTe solar cells

P Gorai, D Krasikov, S Grover, G Xiong, WK Metzger… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
There is widespread interest in reaching the practical efficiency of cadmium telluride (CdTe)
thin-film solar cells, which suffer from open-circuit voltage loss due to high surface …

Review of ZnSnN2 semiconductor material

IS Khan, KN Heinselman… - Journal of physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Zinc tin nitride (ZnSnN 2) is one of the emerging ternary nitride semiconductors considered
for photovoltaic device applications due to its attractive and tunable material properties and …

Ternary nitride semiconductors in the rocksalt crystal structure

SR Bauers, A Holder, W Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Inorganic nitrides with wurtzite crystal structures are well-known semiconductors used in
optical and electronic devices. In contrast, rocksalt-structured nitrides are known for their …