Harnessing defect-tolerance at the nanoscale: highly luminescent lead halide perovskite nanocrystals in mesoporous silica matrixes

DN Dirin, L Protesescu, D Trummer, IV Kochetygov… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Colloidal lead halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) have recently emerged as a novel class
of bright emitters with pure colors spanning the entire visible spectral range. Contrary to …

Binary copper oxides as photovoltaic absorbers: recent progress in materials and applications

Y Wang, JF Pierson - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Binary copper oxides are a promising class of p-type semiconductors for solar energy
conversion applications due to their particular electrical and optical properties, elemental …

Hole-doping to a Cu (I)-based semiconductor with an isovalent cation: Utilizing a complex defect as a shallow acceptor

K Matsuzaki, N Tsunoda, Y Kumagai… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
p-Type doping in Cu (I)-based semiconductors is pivotal for solar cell photoabsorbers and
hole transport materials to improve the device performance. Impurity doping is a …

Precious metal-free nickel nitride catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction

ME Kreider, A Gallo, S Back, Y Liu… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
With promising activity and stability for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), transition metal
nitrides are an interesting class of non-platinum group catalysts for polymer electrolyte …

COMBIgor: data-analysis package for combinatorial materials science

KR Talley, SR Bauers, CL Melamed… - ACS combinatorial …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Combinatorial experiments involve synthesis of sample libraries with lateral composition
gradients requiring spatially resolved characterization of structure and properties. Because …

On the dopability of semiconductors and governing material properties

A Goyal, P Gorai, S Anand, ES Toberer… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
To be practical, semiconductors need to be doped. Sometimes, they need to be doped to
nearly degenerate levels, eg, in applications such as thermoelectric, transparent electronics …

Interplay between Composition, Electronic Structure, Disorder, and Doping due to Dual Sublattice Mixing in Nonequilibrium Synthesis of ZnSnN2:O

J Pan, J Cordell, GJ Tucker, AC Tamboli… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The opportunity for enhanced functional properties in semiconductor solid solutions has
attracted vast scientific interest for a variety of novel applications. However, the functional …

Impact of the RF Power on the Copper Nitride Films Deposited in a Pure Nitrogen Environment for Applications as Eco-Friendly Solar Absorber

MI Rodríguez-Tapiador, J Merino, T Jawhari… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
This material can be considered to be an interesting eco-friendly choice to be used in the
photovoltaic field. In this work, we present the fabrication of Cu3N thin films by reactive radio …

Enhanced electrical properties of copper nitride films deposited via high power impulse magnetron sputtering

YH Chen, PI Lee, S Sakalley, CK Wen, WC Cheng… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS) has generated a great deal of interest
by offering significant advantages such as high target ionization rate, high plasma density …

Effect of Argon on the Properties of Copper Nitride Fabricated by Magnetron Sputtering for the Next Generation of Solar Absorbers

CA Figueira, GD Rosario, D Pugliese… - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Copper nitride, a metastable semiconductor material with high stability at room temperature,
is attracting considerable attention as a potential next-generation earth-abundant thin-film …