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Philippe Ghosez

Philippe Ghosez

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Materials Science

D-Index
63
Citations
25100
World Ranking
6036
National Ranking
60

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the understanding of ferroelectricity and related phenomena in bulk and nanoscale perovskite oxides, specifically the finite size effects and imperfect screening in ferroelectric thin films and for the discovery of a new type of improper ferroelectricity

Overview

Philippe Ghosez is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a significant focus on subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics of Ghosez's scientific work cover areas such as Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials, Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides, Magnetic and Transport Properties of Perovskites and Related Materials, Multiferroics and Related Materials, Advanced Condensed Matter Physics, Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies, and Perovskite Materials and Applications.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ghosez include:

  • ABINIT: Overview and focus on selected capabilities, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Band-Edge Orbital Engineering of Perovskite Semiconductors for Optoelectronic Applications, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Polar meron-antimeron networks in strained and twisted bilayers, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Length scales of interfacial coupling between metal and insulator phases in oxides, 2020, Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
  • Modeling of Ferroelectric Oxide Perovskites: From First to Second Principles, 2021, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Ghosez frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Xu He, Louis Bastogne, Éric Bousquet, Jie Wang, and Huazhang Zhang.

The scientist's work is also consistently published in several key venues, such as Physical Review B, arXiv (Cornell University), The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Physical Review Letters, and Physical Review Materials.

In 2018, Ghosez was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for contributions to the understanding of ferroelectricity and related phenomena in bulk and nanoscale perovskite oxides. The citation specifically mentions work related to finite size effects and imperfect screening in ferroelectric thin films and the discovery of a new type of improper ferroelectricity.

Best Publications

  • First-principles computation of material properties: the ABINIT software project

    Xavier Gonze;Jean-Michel Beuken;R. Caracas;F Detraux

  • ABINIT: First-principles approach to material and nanosystem properties

    Xavier Gonze;B. Amadon;P.-M. Anglade;Jean-Michel Beuken

  • Critical thickness for ferroelectricity in perovskite ultrathin films

    Javier Junquera;Philippe Ghosez

  • A brief introduction to the ABINIT software package

    Xavier Gonze;Gian-Marco Rignanese;Matthieu J. Verstraete;Jean-Michel Beuken

  • Interface Physics in Complex Oxide Heterostructures

    Pavlo Zubko;Stefano Gariglio;Marc Gabay;Philippe Ghosez

  • Improper ferroelectricity in perovskite oxide artificial superlattices

    Eric Bousquet;Matthew Dawber;Matthew Dawber;Nicolas Stucki;Céline Lichtensteiger

  • The Abinit project: Impact, environment and recent developments

    Xavier Gonze;Bernard Amadon;Gabriel Antonius;Frédéric Arnardi

  • Lattice dynamics of BaTiO 3 , PbTiO 3 , and PbZrO 3 : A comparative first-principles study

    Philippe Ghosez;E. Cockayne;U. V. Waghmare;K. M. Rabe

  • Ferroelectricity and tetragonality in ultrathin PbTiO3 films

    Céline Lichtensteiger;Jean-Marc Triscone;Javier Junquera;Philippe Ghosez

  • Raman and infrared spectra of multiferroic bismuth ferrite from first principles

    Patrick Hermet;Marco Goffinet;J. Kreisel;Philippe Ghosez

  • Nonlinear optical susceptibilities, Raman efficiencies, and electro-optic tensors from first-principles density functional perturbation theory

    M. Veithen;X. Gonze;Philippe Ghosez

  • ABINIT: Overview and focus on selected capabilities.

    Aldo H. Romero;Douglas C. Allan;Bernard Amadon;Gabriel Antonius

  • Microscopic model of ferroelectricity in stress-free PbTiO3 ultrathin films

    Philippe Ghosez;K. M. Rabe

  • Density-polarization Functional Theory of the Response of a Periodic Insulating Solid To An Electric-field

    X. Gonze;Philippe Ghosez;R. W. Godby

  • Understanding ferroelectricity in layered perovskites: new ideas and insights from theory and experiments

    Nicole A. Benedek;James M. Rondinelli;Hania Djani;Phillippe Ghosez

  • Spontaneous 2-dimensional carrier confinement at the n-type SrTiO3/LaAlO3 interface.

    Pietro Delugas;Alessio Filippetti;Vincenzo Fiorentini;Daniel I. Bilc

  • Engineering multiferroism in CaMnO3.

    Satadeep Bhattacharjee;Eric Bousquet;Philippe Ghosez

  • Tailoring the properties of artificially layered ferroelectric superlattices

    Matthew Dawber;Nicolas Stucki;Celine Lichtensteiger;Stefano Gariglio

  • Low-Dimensional Transport and Large Thermoelectric Power Factors in Bulk Semiconductors by Band Engineering of Highly Directional Electronic States

    Daniel I. Bilc;Geoffroy Hautier;David Waroquiers;Gian-Marco Rignanese

  • First-principles study of the dielectric and dynamical properties of lithium niobate

    M. Veithen;Philippe Ghosez

  • Tunable conductivity threshold at polar oxide interfaces

    M.L. Reinle-Schmitt;C. Cancellieri;Danfeng Li;D. Fontaine

  • Improper ferroelectricity in perovskite oxide artificial superlattices

    Matthew Dawber;Nicolas Stucki;Celine Lichtensteiger;Jean-Marc Triscone

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Marc Triscone
Jean-Marc Triscone University of Geneva
Xavier Gonze
Xavier Gonze Université Catholique de Louvain
Karin M. Rabe
Karin M. Rabe Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Gertjan Koster
Gertjan Koster University of Twente
Emilio Artacho
Emilio Artacho University of Cambridge
Geoffroy Hautier
Geoffroy Hautier Dartmouth College
Peter B. Littlewood
Peter B. Littlewood University of Chicago
Engin Durgun
Engin Durgun Bilkent University
James R. Chelikowsky
James R. Chelikowsky The University of Texas at Austin
Wilfrid Prellier
Wilfrid Prellier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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