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Title: An ab initio electronic transport database for inorganic materials

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  1. Univ. catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States)
  3. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Electronic transport in materials is governed by a series of tensorial properties such as conductivity, Seebeck coefficient, and effective mass. These quantities are paramount to the understanding of materials in many fields from thermoelectrics to electronics and photovoltaics. Transport properties can be calculated from a material’s band structure using the Boltzmann transport theory framework. We present here the largest computational database of electronic transport properties based on a large set of 48,000 materials originating from the Materials Project database. Our results were obtained through the interpolation approach developed in the BoltzTraP software, assuming a constant relaxation time. We present the workflow to generate the data, the data validation procedure, and the database structure. In conclusion, our aim is to target the large community of scientists developing materials selection strategies and performing studies involving transport properties.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1398997
Journal Information:
Scientific Data, Vol. 4; ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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