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Overview

Stephan Lany is affiliated with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with a significant emphasis on materials chemistry. The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields including biomedical engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, electrical and electronic engineering, and inorganic chemistry.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics, with notable attention to crystallization and solubility studies, as well as X-ray diffraction in crystallography. They have also worked on machine learning applications in materials science, electronic and structural properties of oxides, chemical looping and thermochemical processes, inorganic chemistry and materials, and advancements in solid oxide fuel cells.

Stephan Lany's recent publication record includes the following papers:

  • "Utilizing Site Disorder in the Development of New Energy-Relevant Semiconductors" (2020) published in ACS Energy Letters
  • "Experimental Synthesis of Theoretically Predicted Multivalent Ternary Nitride Materials" (2022) published in Chemistry of Materials
  • "Combinatorial Synthesis of Magnesium Tin Nitride Semiconductors" (2020) published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Compositionally Complex Perovskite Oxides for Solar Thermochemical Water Splitting" (2023) published in Chemistry of Materials
  • "Defect graph neural networks for materials discovery in high-temperature clean-energy applications" (2023) published in Nature Computational Science

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Abhishek Sharan, Anuj Goyal, Adele C. Tamboli, Eric N. Coker, and Anthony H. McDaniel. These collaborative relationships have resulted in substantial joint contributions to materials science literature.

Stephan Lany's work has appeared in multiple publication venues, with a strong presence in The Cambridge Structural Database, Chemistry of Materials, arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review Materials, and Inorganic Chemistry. Among these, The Cambridge Structural Database holds the highest number of their publications.

Best Publications

  • Dopability, intrinsic conductivity, and nonstoichiometry of transparent conducting oxides.

    Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

  • Assessment of correction methods for the band-gap problem and for finite-size effects in supercell defect calculations: Case studies for ZnO and GaAs

    Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

  • Anion vacancies as a source of persistent photoconductivity in II-VI and chalcopyrite semiconductors

    Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

  • Correcting density functional theory for accurate predictions of compound enthalpies of formation: Fitted elemental-phase reference energies

    Vladan Stevanović;Stephan Lany;Xiuwen Zhang;Alex Zunger

  • Origins of the p -type nature and cation deficiency in Cu 2 O and related materials

    Hannes Raebiger;Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

  • n -type doping of CuIn Se 2 and CuGa Se 2

    Clas Persson;Yu-Jun Zhao;Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

  • Band-structure, optical properties, and defect physics of the photovoltaic semiconductor SnS

    Julien Vidal;Stephan Lany;Mayeul d’Avezac;Alex Zunger

  • Accurate prediction of defect properties in density functional supercell calculations

    Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

  • Light- and bias-induced metastabilities in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 based solar cells caused by the (VSe-VCu) vacancy complex

    Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

  • Polaronic Hole Localization and Multiple Hole Binding of Acceptors in Oxide Wide-Gap Semiconductors

    Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

  • A map of the inorganic ternary metal nitrides

    Wenhao Sun;Christopher J. Bartel;Elisabetta Arca;Sage R. Bauers

  • Defect Tolerant Semiconductors for Solar Energy Conversion

    Andriy Zakutayev;Christopher M. Caskey;Christopher M. Caskey;Angela N. Fioretti;Angela N. Fioretti;David S. Ginley

  • Magnetism without Magnetic Ions: Percolation, Exchange, and Formation Energies of Magnetism-Promoting Intrinsic Defects in CaO

    J. Osorio-Guillén;S. Lany;S. V. Barabash;A. Zunger

  • The 2019 materials by design roadmap

    Kirstin Alberi;Marco Buongiorno Nardelli;Andriy Zakutayev;Lubos Mitas

  • Electronic structures of Cu2O, Cu4O3, and CuO: A joint experimental and theoretical study

    Y. Wang;S. Lany;J. Ghanbaja;Y. Fagot-Revurat

  • The electronic structure of chalcopyrites—bands, point defects and grain boundaries

    Susanne Siebentritt;Malgorzata Igalson;Clas Persson;Stephan Lany

  • Semiconducting transition metal oxides

    Stephan Lany

  • Origins of the doping asymmetry in oxides : hole doping in NiO versus electron doping in ZnO

    Stephan Lany;Jorge Osorio-Guillén;Alex Zunger

  • Charge self-regulation upon changing the oxidation state of transition metals in insulators.

    Hannes Raebiger;Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

  • Assessing capability of semiconductors to split water using ionization potentials and electron affinities only

    Vladan Stevanović;Vladan Stevanović;Stephan Lany;David S. Ginley;Willam Tumas

  • Intrinsic defects in ZnO calculated by screened exchange and hybrid density functionals

    S. J. Clark;J. Robertson;Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

  • Correcting Density Functional Theory for Accurate Predictions of Compound Enthalpies of Formation:Fitted elemental-phase Reference Energies (FERE)

    Vladan Stevanovic;Xiuwen Zhang;Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

Frequent Co-Authors

Andriy Zakutayev
Andriy Zakutayev National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Alex Zunger
Alex Zunger University of Colorado Boulder
Vladan Stevanović
Vladan Stevanović Colorado School of Mines
David S. Ginley
David S. Ginley National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Eric S. Toberer
Eric S. Toberer Colorado School of Mines
Michael F. Toney
Michael F. Toney University of Colorado Boulder
Gerbrand Ceder
Gerbrand Ceder University of California, Berkeley
Charles B. Musgrave
Charles B. Musgrave University of Colorado Boulder
Thomas O. Mason
Thomas O. Mason Northwestern University
Xiuwen Zhang
Xiuwen Zhang University of Colorado Boulder

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