Identification and design principles of low hole effective mass p-type transparent conducting oxides
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Hautier, Geoffroy
Miglio, Anna
Ceder, Gerbrand
Rignanese, Gian-Marco
Gonze, Xavier
Date Issued
August 2013
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Nature Communications
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Nature Publishing Group
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Hautier, Geoffroy, Anna Miglio, Gerbrand Ceder, Gian-Marco Rignanese, and Xavier Gonze. “Identification and design principles of low hole effective mass p-type transparent conducting oxides.” Nature Communications 4 (August 13, 2013). © 2013 Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
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Abstract
The development of high-performance transparent conducting oxides is critical to many technologies from transparent electronics to solar cells. Whereas n-type transparent conducting oxides are present in many devices, their p-type counterparts are not largely commercialized, as they exhibit much lower carrier mobilities due to the large hole effective masses of most oxides. Here we conduct a high-throughput computational search on thousands of binary and ternary oxides and identify several highly promising compounds displaying exceptionally low hole effective masses (up to an order of magnitude lower than state-of-the-art p-type transparent conducting oxides), as well as wide band gaps. In addition to the discovery of specific compounds, the chemical rationalization of our findings opens new directions, beyond current Cu-based chemistries, for the design and development of future p-type transparent conducting oxides.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3292
