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Non-adiabatic Molecular Dynamics

To gain atomistic insight into charge carrier relaxation of modern-day nanomaterials, we perform nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) simulation coupled with density functional theory as implemented in VASP. For the insightful understanding of electron/hole transfer and electron-hole recombination dynamics, here we calculate the nonadiabatic coupling between the energy states, pure dephasing time and the electron-phonon coupling. Using this level of calculation, we wish to calculate more physical characteristics of charge carriers and explore various applications in the area of photovoltaics and photocatalytics.

Representative Publications:

  • A Ghosh, B Ball, S Pal, P Sarkar, "Ultrafast Charge Transfer and Delayed Recombination in Graphitic-CN/WTe2 van der Waals Heterostructure: A Time Domain Ab Initio Study,"  J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2022, 13, 7898-7905  (Link)                      

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