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Thin film synthesis of SrZn2P2 with SrI2 post-annealing for enhanced crystallinity and optoelectronic quality
Sita Dugu, Shaham Quadir, Christopher P. Muzzillo +11
Ternary Zintl phosphides are promising light-absorbing semiconductors for thin-film optoelectronic applications, but strategies for controlling their microstructure and optoelectro…
Long photoexcited carrier lifetime in a stable and earth-abundant zinc polyphosphide
Zhenkun Yuan, Genevieve Amobi, Shaham Quadir +16
Halide perovskites have revolutionized optoelectronics by demonstrating that long carrier lifetime can be achieved in materials processed in relatively uncontrolled environments, w…
Thin-Film Stabilization and Magnetism of η-Carbide Type Iron Nitrides
Baptiste Julien, Abrar Rauf, Liam A. V. Nagle-Cocco +4
Transition-metal nitrides in η-carbide type structures exhibit unusual bonding motifs and proximity to magnetic instabilities. Yet they remain unexplored in thin-film form due to t…
Ferrimagnetic Order in Tetragonal Antiperovskite MnGeN
Shaun O'Donnell, Corlyn Regier, Sharad Mahatara +7
The crystal and magnetic structures of the nitride antiperovskite MnGeN reveals ferrimagnetic order stemming from a distorted kagome-derived lattice of the Mn atoms. Polycrysta…
Interplay of Ferromagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Interactions in Epitaxial CoZnN
Sita Dugu, Sharad Mahatara, Corlyn E Regier +4
Antiperovskite nitrides with the general formula MN have attracted significant attention due to their tunable electronic and magnetic properties. Among them are many cobalt-bas…
Fabrication and Structural Analysis of Trilayers for Tantalum Josephson Junctions with TaO Barriers
Raahul Potluri, Rohin Tangirala, Jiangteng Liu +6
Tantalum (Ta) has emerged as a promising low-loss material, enabling record coherence times in superconducting qubits. This enhanced performance is largely attributed to its stable…
Structural stability, elemental ordering, and transport properties of layered ScTaN2
Baptiste Julien, Ian A. Leahy, Rebecca W. Smaha +4
Some ternary TM nitrides are predicted to adopt layered structures that make them interesting for thermoelectric conversion and quantum materials applications. Synthesis of TM tern…
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…
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…
Thin Film Synthesis, Structural Analysis, and Magnetic Properties of Novel Ternary Transition Metal Nitride MnCoN2
Sita Dugu, Rebecca W Smaha, Shaham Quadir +8
Recent high-throughput computational searches have predicted many novel ternary nitride compounds providing new opportunities for materials discovery in under explored phase spaces…
Synthesis pathways to thin films of stable layered nitrides
Andriy Zakutayev, Matthew Jankousky, Laszlo Wolf +7
Controlled synthesis of metastable materials away from equilibrium is of interest in materials chemistry. Thin film deposition methods with rapid condensation of vapor precursors c…
GdWN is a Nitride Perovskite
Rebecca W. Smaha, John S. Mangum, Neha Yadav +8
Nitride perovskites N are an emerging and highly under-explored class of materials that are of interest due to their intriguing calculated ferroelectric, optoelectronic, an…
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…
Bulk and film synthesis pathways to ternary magnesium tungsten nitrides
Christopher L. Rom, Rebecca W. Smaha, Callan A. Knebel +4
Bulk solid state synthesis of nitride materials usually leads to thermodynamically stable, cation-ordered crystal structures, whereas thin film synthesis tends to favor disordered,…
Autonomous sputter synthesis of thin film nitrides with composition controlled by Bayesian optimization of optical plasma emission
Davi M. Febba, Kevin R. Talley, Kendal Johnson +5
Autonomous experimentation has emerged as an efficient approach to accelerate the pace of materials discovery. Although instruments for autonomous synthesis have become popular in…
Structural and Optoelectronic Properties of Thin Film LaWN
Rebecca W. Smaha, John S. Mangum, Ian A. Leahy +9
Nitride perovskites are an emerging class of materials that have been predicted to display a range of interesting physics and functional properties, but they are under-explored due…
Combinatorial synthesis of cation-disordered manganese tin nitride MnSnN thin films with magnetic and semiconducting properties
Christopher L. Rom, Rebecca W. Smaha, Celeste L. Melamed +11
Magnetic semiconductors may soon improve the energy efficiency of computers, but materials exhibiting these dual properties remain underexplored. Here, we report the computational…
Boron phosphide films by reactive sputtering: Searching for a p-type transparent conductor
Andrea Crovetto, Jesse M. Adamczyk, Rekha R. Schnepf +7
With an indirect band gap in the visible and a direct band gap at a much higher energy, boron phosphide (BP) holds promise as an unconventional p-type transparent conductor. Previo…
n-type electrical conduction in SnS thin films
Issei Suzuki, Sakiko Kawanishi, Sage R. Bauers +7
Tin monosulfide (SnS) usually exhibits p-type conduction due to the low formation enthalpy of acceptor-type defects, and as a result n-type SnS thin films have never been obtained.…
Synthesis of tunable nanoscale superlattices
Dennice M. Roberts, Dylan Bardgett, John D. Perkins +3
Nanoscale superlattices represent a compelling platform for designed materials as the specific identity and spatial arrangement of constituent layers can lead to tunable properties…
High-throughput fabrication and semi-automated characterization of oxide thin film transistors
Yanbing Han, Sage Bauers, Qun Zhang +1
High throughput experimental methods are known to accelerate the rate of research, development, and deployment of electronic materials. For example, thin films with lateral gradien…
COMBIgor: data analysis package for combinatorial materials science
Kevin R. Talley, Sage R. Bauers, Celeste L. Melamed +9
Combinatorial experiments involve synthesis of sample libraries with lateral composition gradients requiring spatially-resolved characterization of structure and properties. Due to…
Ternary Nitride Semiconductors in the Rocksalt Crystal Structure
Sage R. Bauers, Aaron Holder, Wenhao Sun +10
Inorganic nitrides with wurtzite crystal structures are well-known semiconductors used in optoelectronic devices. In contrast, rocksalt-based nitrides are known for their metallic…
A Map of the Inorganic Ternary Metal Nitrides
Wenhao Sun, Christopher Bartel, Elisabetta Arca +12
Exploratory synthesis in novel chemical spaces is the essence of solid-state chemistry. However, uncharted chemical spaces can be difficult to navigate, especially when materials s…