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Ultrafast Spontaneous Exciton Dissociation via Phonon Emission in BiVO
Stephen E. Gant, Antonios M. Alvertis, Christopher J. N. Coveney +3
Monoclinic bismuth vanadate (m-BiVO) is a promising indirect band gap semiconductor for photoelectrochemical water splitting, yet the characteristics of its low-lying photoexci…
Theory of ab initio downfolding with arbitrary range electron-phonon coupling
Norm M. Tubman, Christopher J. N. Coveney, Chih-En Hsu +6
Ab initio downfolding describes the electronic structure of materials within a low-energy subspace, often around the Fermi level. Typically starting from mean-field calculations, t…
Phonon screening of excitons in atomically thin semiconductors
Woncheol Lee, Antonios M. Alvertis, Zhenglu Li +4
Atomically thin semiconductors, encompassing both 2D materials and quantum wells, exhibit a pronounced enhancement of excitonic effects due to geometric confinement. Consequently,…
Rearrangement collision theory of phonon-driven exciton dissociation
Christopher J. N. Coveney, Jonah B. Haber, Antonios M. Alvertis +2
Understanding the processes governing the dissociation of excitons to free charge carriers in semiconductors and insulators is of central importance for photovoltaic applications.…
Phonon screening and dissociation of excitons at finite temperatures from first principles
Antonios M. Alvertis, Jonah B. Haber, Zhenglu Li +4
The properties of excitons, or correlated electron-hole pairs, are of paramount importance to optoelectronic applications of materials. A central component of exciton physics is th…