Publications by Thomas Bischoff

Absolute energy levels of liquid water from many-body perturbation theory with effective vertex corrections

Alfredo Pasquarello, Thomas Bischoff, Aleksei Tal

We demonstrate the importance of addressing the F vertex and thus going beyond the GW approximation for achieving the energy levels of liquid water in manybody perturbation theory. In particular, we consider an effective vertex function in both the polariz ...

National Academy of Sciences2024

Accurate and efficient band-gap predictions for metal halide perovskites at finite temperature

Alfredo Pasquarello, Aleksei Tal, Haiyuan Wang, Patrick Gono, Thomas Bischoff

We develop a computationally efficient scheme to accurately determine finite-temperature band gaps for metal halide perovskites belonging to the class ABX(3) (A = Rb, Cs; B = Ge, Sn, Pb; and X = F, Cl, Br, I). First, an initial estimate of the band gap is ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Nonempirical hybrid functionals for advanced electronic-structure calculations

Thomas Bischoff

Electronic-structure calculations based on hybrid functionals have emerged as a standard technique used in physics, chemistry, and material science. Despite this success, hybrid functionals have the drawback of containing undetermined parameters. To overc ...

EPFL2021

Band gaps of liquid water and hexagonal ice through advanced electronic-structure calculations

Alfredo Pasquarello, Igor Reshetnyak, Thomas Bischoff

The fundamental band gaps of liquid water and hexagonal ice are calculated through advanced electronicstructure methods. We compare specifically the performance of state-of-the-art GW calculations with nonempirical hybrid functionals. For the latter, we fi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Band alignment at the CaF2/Si(111) interface through advanced electronic structure calculations

Alfredo Pasquarello, Igor Reshetnyak, Thomas Bischoff

We determine the band alignment at the CaF2/Si(111) interface through various advanced electronic structure methods. This interface is experimentally well studied and serves as an ideal test case to examine the accuracy of theoretical schemes. We use both ...

2020

Atomic scale structure and its impact on the band gap energy for Cu2Zn(Sn,Ge)Se(4)kesterite alloys

Thomas Bischoff

Kesterite based materials gain more and more relevance in the pursuit of affordable, efficient and flexible absorber materials for thin film photovoltaics. Alloying Cu(2)ZnSnSe(4)with Ge could allow controlled band gap engineering as already established fo ...

2020

Adjustable potential probes for band-gap predictions of extended systems through nonempirical hybrid functionals

Alfredo Pasquarello, Igor Reshetnyak, Thomas Bischoff

We describe a nonempirical procedure for achieving accurate band gaps of extended systems through the insertion of suitably defined potential probes. By enforcing Koopmans' condition on the resulting localized electronic states, we determine the optimal fr ...

2019

Nonempirical hybrid functionals for band gaps of inorganic metal-halide perovskites

Alfredo Pasquarello, Wei Chen, Julia Anna Wiktor, Thomas Bischoff

Nonempirical hybrid functionals are investigated for band-gap predictions of inorganic metal-halide perovskites belonging to the class CsBX3, with B = Ge, Sn, Pb and X = Cl, Br, I. We consider both global and range-separated hybrid functionals and determin ...

2019