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most citedRutile GeO2: an ultrawide-band-gap semiconductor with ambipolar doping

103 citations · 665 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Extreme-Band-Gap Semiconductors with Shallow Dopants and Mobile Carriers

Sieun Chae, Nocona Sanders, Kelsey A. Mengle +8

The conventional distinction between semiconductors and insulators is often based on the magnitude of the band gap, with materials exhibiting gaps wider than 3 eV typically classif…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 73 cited

Perspective: Towards the predictive discovery of ambipolarly dopable ultra-wide-band-gap semiconductors: the case of rutile GeO

S. Chae, K. A. Mengle, K. Bushick +8

Ultrawide-band-gap (UWBG) semiconductors are promising for fast, compact, and energy-efficient power-electronics devices. Their wider band gaps result in higher breakdown electric…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 52 cited

Optical properties of cubic boron arsenide

Bai Song, Ke Chen, Kyle Bushick +6

The ultrahigh thermal conductivity of boron arsenide makes it a promising material for next-generation electronics and optoelectronics. In this work, we report measured optical pro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 78 cited

Electron and hole mobility of rutile GeO from first principles: an ultrawide-band-gap semiconductor for power electronics

Kyle Bushick, Kelsey A. Mengle, Sieun Chae +1

Rutile germanium dioxide (r-GeO) is a recently predicted ultrawide-band-gap semiconductor with potential applications in high-power electronic devices, for which the carrier mo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 2 cited

Thermal conductivity of AlN, GaN, and AlGaN alloys as a function of composition, temperature, crystallographic direction, and isotope disorder from first principles

Sahil Dagli, Kelsey A. Mengle, Emmanouil Kioupakis

Ultra-wide-band-gap group-III nitrides are of interest for applications in deep-ultraviolet optoelectronics and power electronics. Such devices must be able to efficiently dissipat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 71 cited

Quasiparticle band structure and optical properties of rutile GeO, an ultra-wide-band-gap semiconductor

Kelsey A. Mengle, Sieun Chae, Emmanouil Kioupakis

Rutile GeO is a visible and near-ultraviolet-transparent oxide that has not been explored for semiconducting applications in electronic and optoelectronic devices. We investiga…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 103 cited

Rutile GeO2: an ultrawide-band-gap semiconductor with ambipolar doping

Sieun Chae, Jihang Lee, Kelsey A. Mengle +2

Ultra-wide-band-gap (UWBG) semiconductors have tremendous potential to advance electronic devices as device performance improves superlinearly with increasing gap. Ambipolar doping…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 58 cited

Vibrational and electron-phonon coupling properties of \b{eta}-Ga2O3 from first-principles calculations: Impact on the mobility and breakdown field

K. A. Mengle, E. Kioupakis

The wide band gap semiconductor \b{eta}-Ga2O3 shows promise for applications in high-power and high-temperature electronics. The phonons of \b{eta}-Ga2O3 play a crucial role in det…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 94 cited

First-Principles Calculations of the Near-Edge Optical Properties of \b{eta}-Ga2O3

Kelsey A. Mengle, Guangsha Shi, Dylan Bayerl +1

We use first-principles calculations based on many-body perturbation theory to investigate the near-edge electronic and optical properties of \b{eta}-Ga2O3. The fundamental band ga…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 57 cited

Point defects and dopants of boron arsenide from first-principles calculations: donor compensation and doping asymmetry

Sieun Chae, Kelsey Mengle, John T. Heron +1

We apply hybrid density functional theory calculations to identify the formation energies and thermodynamic charge transition levels of native point defects, common impurities, and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 77 cited

Band structure and carrier effective masses of boron arsenide: effects of quasiparticle and spin-orbit coupling corrections

Kyle Bushick, Kelsey Mengle, Nocona Sanders +1

We determine the fundamental electronic and optical properties of the high-thermal-conductivity III-V semiconductor boron arsenide (BAs) using density functional and many body pert…