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Revealing the Role of Confined Molecular H in the Passivation of Defective Silicon Using First-Principles Simulations

Hania Azzam, Tobias Binninger, Benedikt Fischer +2

The passivation of silicon dangling bonds by hydrogen is a crucial requirement for silicon-based optoelectronic technology, especially for solar cells. Recent experiments on intens…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 4 cited

Discovery and Synthesis of a Family of Boride Altermagnets

Zhen Zhang, Eranga H. Gamage, Genevieve Amobi +6

Borides are a rich material family. To push the boundaries of borides' properties and applications into broader fields, we have conducted systematic theoretical and experimental se…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 11 cited

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 20 cited

Microwave-driven synthesis and modification of nanocarbons and hybrids in liquid and solid phases

Nagaraj Nandihalli

Over the past 20 years, nanocarbons have become more significant as nanostructured fillers in composites and, more recently, as functional elements in a brand-new class of hybrid m…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 8 cited

Multiple magnetic interactions and large inverse magnetocaloric effect in TbSi and TbSiGe

Ajay Kumar, Prashant Singh, Andrew Doyle +2

We present a comprehensive investigation of the electronic structure, magnetization, specific heat, and crystallography of TbSi (FeB structure type) and TbSiGe (CrB…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 16 cited

Exploring the formation of gold/silver nanoalloys with gas-phase synthesis and machine-learning assisted simulations

Quentin Gromoff, Patrizio Benzo, Wissam A. Saidi +6

While nanoalloys are of paramount scientific and practical interests, the main processes leading to their formation are still poorly understood. Key structural features in the allo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 17 cited

Density Functional Theory of Material Design: Fundamentals and Applications -- I

Prashant Singh, Manoj K Harbola

This article is part-I of a review of density-functional theory (DFT) that is the most widely used method for calculating electronic structure of materials. The accuracy and ease o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 3 cited

Stacking up electron-rich and electron-deficient monolayers to achieve extraordinary mid- to far-infrared excitonic absorption: Interlayer excitons in the C3B/C3N bilayer

Zhao Tang, Greis J. Cruz, Fanhao Jia +3

Our ability to efficiently detect and generate far-infrared (i.e., terahertz) radiation is vital in areas spanning from biomedical imaging to interstellar spectroscopy. Despite dec…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 71 cited

Vacancy formation energies and migration barriers in multi-principal element alloys

Ankit Roy, Prashant Singh, Ganesh Balasubramanian +1

Multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) continue to garner interest as structural and plasma-facing materials due to their structure stability and increased resistance to radiation…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 34 cited

Machine-learning enabled thermodynamic model for the design of new rare-earth compounds

Prashant Singh, Tyler Del Rose, Guillermo Vazquez +2

We employ a descriptor based machine-learning approach to assess the effect of chemical alloying on formation-enthalpy of rare-earth intermetallics. Application of machine-learning…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 27 cited

Effect of substitutional doping and disorder on the phase stability, magnetism, and half-metallicity of Heusler alloys

Nikolai A Zarkevich, Prashant Singh, A. V. Smirnov +1

Spintronics is the fast growing field that will play a key role in optimizing power consumption, memory, and processing capabilities of nanoelectronic devices. Heusler alloys are p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 155 cited

Towards Stacking Fault Energy Engineering in FCC High Entropy Alloys

Tasneem Khan, Tanner Kirk, Guillermo Vazquez +5

Stacking Fault Energy (SFE) is an intrinsic alloy property that governs much of the plastic deformation mechanisms observed in fcc alloys. While SFE has been recognized for many ye…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 19 cited

Pseudoelastic deformation in Mo-based refractory multi-principal element alloys

Aayush Sharma, Prashant Singh, Tanner Kirk +5

Phase diagrams supported by density functional theory methods can be crucial for designing high-entropy alloys that are subset of multi-principalelement alloys. We present phase…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 19 cited

Effect of heterostructure engineering on electronic structure and transport properties of two-dimensional halide perovskites

Rahul Singh, Prashant Singh, Ganesh Balasubramania

Organic-inorganic halide perovskite solar cells have attracted much attention due to their low-cost fabrication, flexibility, and high-power conversion efficiency. More recent effo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 11 cited

Designing order-disorder transformation in high-entropy ferritic steels

Singh, Prashant, Johnson +1

Order-disorder transformations hold an essential place in chemically complex high-entropy ferritic-steels (HEFSs) due to their critical technological application. The chemical inho…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 34 cited

On the martensitic transformation in FeMnCoCr high-entropy alloy

Prashant Singh, Sezer Picak, Aayush Sharma +4

High-entropy alloys (HEAs), and even medium-entropy alloys (MEAs), are an intriguing class of materials in that structure and property relations can be controlled via alloying and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 7 cited

Neural-networks model for force prediction in multi-principal-element alloys

Rahul Singh, Prashant Singh, Aayush Sharma +6

Atomistic simulations can provide useful insights into the physical properties of multi-principal-element alloys. However, classical potentials mostly fail to capture key quantum (…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 14 cited

Reinvestigation of the intrinsic magnetic properties of (FeCo)B alloys and crystallization behavior of ribbons

Tej Nath Lamichhane, Olena Palasyuk, Vladimir P. Antropov +10

New determination of the magnetic anisotropy from single crystals of (FeCo)B alloys are presented. The anomalous temperature dependence of the anisotropy constant i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 61 cited

Electron correlation effects on exchange interactions and spin excitations in 2D van der Waals materials

Liqin Ke, Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Despite serious effort, the nature of the magnetic interactions and the role of electron-correlation effects in magnetic two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials remain elusive…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 28 cited

First-order ferromagnetic transitions of lanthanide local moments in divalent compounds: An itinerant electron positive feedback mechanism and Fermi surface topological change

Eduardo Mendive-Tapia, Durga Paudyal, Leon Petit +1

Around discontinuous (first-order) magnetic phase transitions the strong caloric response of materials to the application of small fields is widely studied for the development of s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 28 cited

Half-metallic compositional ranges for selected Heusler alloys

Nikolai A. Zarkevich, Prashant Singh, A. V. Smirnov +1

For a material that is a half-metal, there should exist a range of compositions for half-metallicity. This compositional range can be expressed in terms of electron count and compu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 14 cited

Expansive Open Fermi Arcs and Connectivity Changes Induced by Infrared Phonons in ZrTe5

Lin-Lin Wang

Expansive open Fermi arcs covering most of the surface Brillouin zone (SBZ) are desirable for detection and control of many topological phenomena, but so far has been only reported…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 14 cited

Pressure tuning of structural and magnetic transitions in EuAgAs

Sergey L. Bud'ko, Li Xiang, Chaowei Hu +3

We report temperature dependent measurements of ambient pressure specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, anisotropic resistivity and thermal expansion as well as in-plane resistivi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 4 cited

Parameterization of the Stoner-Wohlfarth model of magnetic hysteresis

Nikolai A. Zarkevich, Cajetan Ikenna Nlebedim, R. William McCallum

The Stoner-Wohlfarth is the most used model of magnetic hysteresis, but its computation is time-consuming. We use machine learning to approximate piecewise this model by easy-to-co…