The repeated slab approach has become a de facto standard to accurately describe surface properties of materials by density functional theory calculations with periodic boundary *** materials exhibiting spontaneous po...
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The repeated slab approach has become a de facto standard to accurately describe surface properties of materials by density functional theory calculations with periodic boundary *** materials exhibiting spontaneous polarization,we show that the conventional scheme of passivation with pseudo hydrogen is unable to realize a charge-neutral *** presence of a net surface charge induces via Gauss’s law a macroscopic electric field through the slab and results in poor size convergence with respect to the thickness of the *** propose a modified passivation method that accounts for the effect of spontaneous polarization,describes the correct bulk limits and boosts convergence with respect to slab *** robustness,reliability,and superior convergence of energetics and electronic structure achieved by the proposed method are demonstrated using the example of polar ZnO surfaces.
Calculations of point defect energetics with Density Functional Theory(DFT)can provide valuable insight into several optoelectronic,thermodynamic,and kinetic *** calculations commonly use methods ranging from semi-loc...
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Calculations of point defect energetics with Density Functional Theory(DFT)can provide valuable insight into several optoelectronic,thermodynamic,and kinetic *** calculations commonly use methods ranging from semi-local functionals with a-posteriori corrections to more computationally intensive hybrid functional *** applications of DFT-based high-throughput computation for data-driven materials discovery,point defect properties are of interest,yet are currently excluded from available materials *** work presents a benchmark analysis of automated,semi-local point defect calculations with a-posteriori corrections,compared to 245“gold standard”hybrid calculations previously *** consider three different a-posteriori correction sets implemented in an automated workflow,and evaluate the qualitative and quantitative differences among four different categories of defect information:thermodynamic transition levels,formation energies,Fermi levels,and dopability *** highlight qualitative information that can be extracted from high-throughput calculations based on semi-local DFT methods,while also demonstrating the limits of quantitative accuracy.
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