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20162026
most citedAccelerated Discovery of Efficient Solar-cell Materials using Quantum and Machine-learning Methods

156 citations · 336 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Correcting DFT formation energies towards experimental accuracy using foundational MLIPs and latent-feature delta-learning

Timo Reents, Marnik Bercx, Giovanni Pizzi

Crystal structure databases curated by high-throughput density functional theory calculations typically serve as the starting point for computational materials discovery efforts. T…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Score-based diffusion models for accurate crystal-structure inpainting and reconstruction of hydrogen positions

Timo Reents, Arianna Cantarella, Marnik Bercx +2

Generative AI models, such as score-based diffusion models, have recently advanced the field of computational materials science by enabling the generation of new materials with des…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 4 cited

MC3D: The Materials Cloud computational database of experimentally known stoichiometric inorganics

Sebastiaan P. Huber, Michail Minotakis, Marnik Bercx +7

DFT is a widely used method to compute properties of materials, which are often collected in databases and serve as valuable starting points for further studies. In this article, w…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Making atomistic materials calculations accessible with the AiiDAlab Quantum ESPRESSO app

Xing Wang, Edan Bainglass, Miki Bonacci +23

Despite the wide availability of density functional theory (DFT) codes, their adoption by the broader materials science community remains limited due to challenges such as software…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Massive Atomic Diversity: a compact universal dataset for atomistic machine learning

Arslan Mazitov, Sofiia Chorna, Guillaume Fraux +4

The development of machine-learning models for atomic-scale simulations has benefited tremendously from the large databases of materials and molecular properties computed in the pa…

cs.SE2025★ 6 cited

A Python workflow definition for computational materials design

Jan Janssen, Janine George, Julian Geiger +8

Numerous Workflow Management Systems (WfMS) have been developed in the field of computational materials science with different workflow formats, hindering interoperability and repr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Accurate and efficient protocols for high-throughput first-principles materials simulations

Gabriel de Miranda Nascimento, Flaviano José dos Santos, Marnik Bercx +3

Advancements in theoretical and algorithmic approaches, workflow engines, and an ever-increasing computational power have enabled a novel paradigm for materials discovery through f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 9 cited

First-principles Hubbard parameters with automated and reproducible workflows

Lorenzo Bastonero, Cristiano Malica, Eric Macke +4

We introduce an automated, flexible framework (aiida-hubbard) to self-consistently calculate Hubbard and parameters from first-principles. By leveraging density-functional…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 10 cited

Charting the landscape of Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductors in experimentally known compounds

Marnik Bercx, Samuel Poncé, Yiming Zhang +8

We perform a high-throughput computational search for novel phonon-mediated superconductors, starting from the Materials Cloud 3-dimensional structure database of experimentally kn…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

The rule of four: anomalous stoichiometries of inorganic compounds

Elena Gazzarrini, Rose K. Cersonsky, Marnik Bercx +2

Why are materials with specific characteristics more abundant than others? This is a fundamental question in materials science and one that is traditionally difficult to tackle, gi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 87 cited

How to verify the precision of density-functional-theory implementations via reproducible and universal workflows

Emanuele Bosoni, Louis Beal, Marnik Bercx +42

In the past decades many density-functional theory methods and codes adopting periodic boundary conditions have been developed and are now extensively used in condensed matter phys…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 42 cited

Common workflows for computing material properties using different quantum engines

Sebastiaan P. Huber, Emanuele Bosoni, Marnik Bercx +23

The prediction of material properties through electronic-structure simulations based on density-functional theory has become routinely common, thanks, in part, to the steady increa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 156 cited

Accelerated Discovery of Efficient Solar-cell Materials using Quantum and Machine-learning Methods

Kamal Choudhary, Marnik Bercx, Jie Jiang +3

Solar-energy plays an important role in solving serious environmental problems and meeting high-energy demand. However, the lack of suitable materials hinders further progress of t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Exceeding the Shockley-Queisser limit within the detailed balance framework

Marnik Bercx, Rolando Saniz, Bart Partoens +1

The Shockley-Queisser limit is one of the most fundamental results in the field of photovoltaics. Based on the principle of detailed balance, it defines an upper limit for a single…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 17 cited

First-principles analysis of the efficiency of photovoltaic layers for CuAu-like chalcogenides and silicon

Marnik Bercx, Nasrin Sarmadian, Rolando Saniz +2

Chalcopyrite semiconductors are of considerable interest for application as absorber layers in thin-film photovoltaic cells. When growing films of these compounds, however, they ar…