Alloying to Tune the Bandgap of the AM2Pn2 Zintl Compounds
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| author | Pike, Andrew Yuan, Zhenkun Hasan, Muhammad Rubaiat Goswami, Smitakshi Samanta, Krishanu Gonzalez, Miguel I. Liu, Jifeng Kovnir, Kirill Hautier, Geoffroy |
| author_facet | Pike, Andrew Yuan, Zhenkun Hasan, Muhammad Rubaiat Goswami, Smitakshi Samanta, Krishanu Gonzalez, Miguel I. Liu, Jifeng Kovnir, Kirill Hautier, Geoffroy |
| contents | The AM2Pn2 Zintl compounds are a large class of semiconductor materials that have a wide range of bandgaps and are mostly stable in the same crystal structure. Representative compounds BaCd2P2 and CaZn2P2 have recently been found to exhibit high visible light absorption and long carrier lifetime. Here we use high throughput first-principles calculations to study AM2Pn2 alloys for applications as tandem top cell absorbers (i.e., bandgaps around 1.8 eV) and far infrared detector materials (i.e., bandgaps lower than 0.5 eV). Using a first-principles computational screening workflow for assessing stability and electronic structure of alloys, we identify several promising candidates. These include Ca(Cd0.8Mg0.2)2P2 with a suitable direct bandgap for use in tandem top cells on silicon bottom cells and SrCd2(Sb1-xBix)2 for far infrared detectors. We demonstrate that alloys of AM2Pn2 materials can be realized by experimentally synthesizing Ca(Zn0.8Mg0.2)2P2. |
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| spellingShingle | Alloying to Tune the Bandgap of the AM2Pn2 Zintl Compounds Pike, Andrew Yuan, Zhenkun Hasan, Muhammad Rubaiat Goswami, Smitakshi Samanta, Krishanu Gonzalez, Miguel I. Liu, Jifeng Kovnir, Kirill Hautier, Geoffroy Materials Science The AM2Pn2 Zintl compounds are a large class of semiconductor materials that have a wide range of bandgaps and are mostly stable in the same crystal structure. Representative compounds BaCd2P2 and CaZn2P2 have recently been found to exhibit high visible light absorption and long carrier lifetime. Here we use high throughput first-principles calculations to study AM2Pn2 alloys for applications as tandem top cell absorbers (i.e., bandgaps around 1.8 eV) and far infrared detector materials (i.e., bandgaps lower than 0.5 eV). Using a first-principles computational screening workflow for assessing stability and electronic structure of alloys, we identify several promising candidates. These include Ca(Cd0.8Mg0.2)2P2 with a suitable direct bandgap for use in tandem top cells on silicon bottom cells and SrCd2(Sb1-xBix)2 for far infrared detectors. We demonstrate that alloys of AM2Pn2 materials can be realized by experimentally synthesizing Ca(Zn0.8Mg0.2)2P2. |
| title | Alloying to Tune the Bandgap of the AM2Pn2 Zintl Compounds |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00127 |