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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…
Combinatorial synthesis and characterization of thin film Al1-xRExN (RE = Pr3+, Tb3+) heterostructural alloys
Binod Paudel, John S. Mangum, Christopher L. Rom +8
The potential impact of cation-substituted AlN-based materials, such as Al1-xScxN, Al1-xGaxN, and Al1-xBxN, with exceptional electronic, electromechanical, and dielectric propertie…
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…
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…
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…
Thin film TaAs: developing a platform for Weyl semimetal devices
Jocienne N. Nelson, Anthony D. Rice, Rafal Kurleto +12
MX monopnictide compounds (M=Nb,Ta, X = As,P) are prototypical three-dimensional Weyl semimetals (WSMs) that have been shown in bulk single crystal form to have potential for a wid…
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…
Ionic Bonds Control Ferroelectric Behavior in Wurtzite Nitrides
Keisuke Yazawa, John Mangum, Prashun Gorai +2
Ferroelectricity enables key integrated technologies from non-volatile memory to precision ultrasound. Wurtzite ferroelectric Al1-xScxN has recently attracted attention because of…
Blue-Green Emission from Epitaxial Yet Cation-Disordered ZnGeNO
C. L. Melamed, M. B. Tellekamp, J. S. Mangum +4
ZnGeN offers a low-cost alternative to InGaN with the potential for bandgap tuning to span the green gap using cation site ordering. The addition of oxygen on the anion site cr…
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…
Enhanced piezoelectric response of AlN via CrN alloying
Sukriti Manna, Kevin R. Talley, Prashun Gorai +5
Since AlN has emerged as an important piezoelectric material for a wide variety of applications, efforts have been made to increase its piezoelectric response via alloying with tra…