Publications (6)
FeMnNiAlCr High Entropy Alloys with High-Efficiency Surface Oxide Solar Absorbers for Concentrating Solar Power Systems
Xiaoxue Gao, Edwin Jiang, Andrew Pike +8
High entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted substantial interest in recent years. Thus far, most investigations have focused on their applications as structural materials rather than…
A Map of the Zintl AM2Pn2 Compounds: Influence of Chemistry on Stability and Electronic Structure
Andrew Pike, Zhenkun Yuan, Gideon Kassa +9
The AM2Pn2 (A= Ca, Sr, Ba, Yb, Mg; M= Mn, Zn, Cd, Mg; and Pn=N, P, As, Sb, Bi) family of Zintl phases has been known as thermoelectric materials and has recently gained much attent…
Alloying to Tune the Bandgap of the AM2Pn2 Zintl Compounds
Andrew Pike, Zhenkun Yuan, Muhammad Rubaiat Hasan +6
The AM2Pn2 Zintl compounds are a large class of semiconductor materials that have a wide range of bandgaps and are mostly stable in the same crystal structure. Representative compo…
Discovery of the Zintl-phosphide BaCdP as a long carrier lifetime and stable solar absorber
Zhenkun Yuan, Diana Dahliah, Muhammad Rubaiat Hasan +17
Thin-film photovoltaics offers a path to significantly decarbonize our energy production. Unfortunately, current materials commercialized or under development as thin-film solar ce…
Assessing carrier mobility, dopability, and defect tolerance in the chalcogenide perovskite BaZrS
Zhenkun Yuan, Diana Dahliah, Romain Claes +4
The chalcogenide perovskite BaZrS has attracted much attention as a promising solar absorber for thin-film photovoltaics. Here, we use first-principles calculations to evaluate…
Low-Temperature Synthesis of Stable CaZnP Zintl Phosphide Thin Films as Candidate Top Absorbers
Shaham Quadir, Zhenkun Yuan, Guillermo Esparza +14
The development of tandem photovoltaics and photoelectrochemical solar cells requires new absorber materials with band gaps in the range of ~1.5-2.3 eV, for use in the top cell pai…