5 papers
BaCd2P2: a promising impurity-tolerant counterpart of GaAs for photovoltaics
Gideon Kassa, Zhenkun Yuan, Muhammad R. Hasan +5
BaCd2P2 (BCP) has been recently identified as a new solar absorber with promising optoelectronic properties. This work demonstrates that, despite having a low precursor purity (98.…
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…
CaCdP: A Visible-Light Absorbing Zintl Phosphide Stable under Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation
Guillermo L. Esparza, Zhenkun Yuan, Muhammad Rubaiat Hasan +9
A key bottleneck to solar fuels is the absence of stable and strongly absorbing photoelectrode materials for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Modern approaches generally trade…
Significant Photoluminescence Improvements from Bulk Germanium-Based Thin Films with Ultra-low Threading Dislocation Densities
Liming Wang, Gideon Kassa, Jifeng Liu +1
Bulk Ge crystals, characterized by significantly lower threading dislocation densities than their epitaxial counterparts, emerge as optimal candidates for studying and improving Ge…
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…