PyPhotonics: A python package for the evaluation of luminescence properties of defects
The prediction of the photoluminescence line-shape of defect systems from first principles is becoming an important tool for the discovery of quantum emission defects in semiconductors. Using a sequence of density functional theory calculations based on the VASP code, PyPhotonics calculates the Huan...
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| Published in: | Computer physics communications Vol. 273; p. 108222 |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier B.V
01.04.2022
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| ISSN: | 0010-4655 |
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| Summary: | The prediction of the photoluminescence line-shape of defect systems from first principles is becoming an important tool for the discovery of quantum emission defects in semiconductors. Using a sequence of density functional theory calculations based on the VASP code, PyPhotonics calculates the Huang-Rhys factor and plots the photoluminescence line-shape of the defect by processing the VASP output.
Program title: PyPhotonics
CPC Library link to program files:https://doi.org/10.17632/vy4ccz4hxz.1
Developer's repository link:https://github.com/sheriftawfikabbas/pyphotonics
Licensing provisions: GNU General Public License 3
Programming language: Python 3.9
Nature of problem: While density functional theory (DFT) codes can calculate properties of crystal defects, there are no available codes to calculate the photoluminescence line-shape and the Huang-Rhys factors for the defects computed using DFT.
Solution method: The PyPhotonics python code is a post-processing library written entirely in python, which takes as input the output files of the VASP and phonopy codes for a defect system, and calculates the Huang-Rhys factor and the PL lineshapes for that system. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-4655 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cpc.2021.108222 |