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most citedComparative first-principles studies of prototypical ferroelectric materials by LDA, GGA, and SCAN meta-GGA

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 51 cited

Prediction of protected band edge states and dielectric tunable quasiparticle and excitonic properties of monolayer MoSiN

Yabei Wu, Zhao Tang, Weiyi Xia +6

The electronic structure of two-dimensional (2D) materials are inherently prone to environmental perturbations, which may pose significant challenges to their applications in elect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 15 cited

Remarkable band gap renormalization via dimensionality of the layered material C3B

Yabei Wu, Weiyi Xia, Yubo Zhang +3

Layer-dependent electronic and structural properties of emerging graphitic carbon boron compound C3B are investigated using both density functional theory and the GW approximation.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Observation of a Room Temperature Two-dimensional Ferroelectric Metal

Mao Ye, Songbai Hu, Shanming Ke +11

Materials with reduced dimensions have been shown to host a wide variety of exotic properties and novel quantum states that often defy textbook wisdom1-5. Ferroelectric polarizatio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 259 cited

Comparative first-principles studies of prototypical ferroelectric materials by LDA, GGA, and SCAN meta-GGA

Yubo Zhang, Jianwei Sun, John P. Perdew +1

Originating from a broken spatial inversion symmetry, ferroelectricity is a functionality of materials with an electric dipole that can be switched by external electric fields. Spo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 18 cited

Effects of biaxial strain on the improper multiferroicity in h-LuFeO3 films

Kishan Sinha, Yubo Zhang, Xuanyuan Jiang +11

Elastic strain is potentially an important approach in tuning the properties of the improperly multiferroic hexagonal ferrites, the details of which have however been elusive due t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 14 cited

SCAN: An Efficient Density Functional Yielding Accurate Structures and Energies of Diversely-Bonded Materials

Jianwei Sun, Richard C. Remsing, Yubo Zhang +9

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is a widely-used electronic structure theory for materials as well as molecules. DFT is needed especially for large systems, ab initio mol…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 123 cited

Comparative Study of Structural and Electronic Properties of Cu-based Multinary Semiconductors

Yubo Zhang, Xun Yuan, Xiudong Sun +3

We present a systematic and comparative study of the structural and electronic properties of Cu-based ternary and quaternary semiconductors using first-principles electronic struct…