During the last decade, Inorganic Halide Double Perovskite materials have attracted widespread interest as a promising eco-friendly and non-toxic alternative to lead based hybrid halide organic–inorganic perovskites materials, with outstanding Stability, Structural and electronic properties. In this study, First-Principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations were performed on the structural, stability, electronic and optical properties of the transition metal-based double perovskites materials Cs₂InGaX₆ (X = Cl, Br, or I). Our results reveal that all these materials exhibit excellent thermodynamic and structural stability owing to their negative formation energies and Goldsmith's factors. It is also observed that Cs₂InGaCl₆, Cs₂InGaBr₆, and Cs₂InGaI₆ materials exhibit band gaps calculated by different functional (GGA-PBE and TB-mpj) in visible-range between 0.89 and 3.24 eV. Furthermore, the computed optical properties reveal strong absorption in UV, visible, and IR range with high optical conductivity and low reflectivity. These obtained results predict that the three transition metal-based double perovskites materials carries promising application in nano-electronic and optoelectronic device applications and can be considered as photovoltaic absorber materials.

Two-dimensional materials provide new opportunities for the next generation of effective and ultrathin photovoltaic solar cells. Herein, we propose Janus monolayers of Tin monochalcogenides, especially Janus Sn₂SSe (type TA) and SnGeS₂ (type TB) nanosheets, as strong absorber candidates for solar energy conversion, referring to their excellent electronic and optical properties. Interestingly, based on the first-principles computations, both Janus Sn₂SSe and SnGeS₂ monolayers possess semiconductor character with indirect and moderate band gaps of 1.60 and 1.61eV, respectively. Accordingly, the considered systems, Sn₂SSe and SnGeS₂ single-layers, have high absorption coefficient, reaching up to 49.7 and 62.5μm⁻¹, high optical conductivity of about 4513 and 3559Ω⁻¹cm⁻¹, as well as low reflectivity never exceed 34.6 and 38.5% in visible region, respectively. Additionally, the maximum photovoltaic efficiency of single-junction solar cells based on SnGeS₂ and Sn₂SSe nanosheets can reach as high as 27.47% and 28.12%, respectively. The present outstanding results would motivate both theoretical and experimental researchers to deepen the study of the potential applications of two-dimensional Janus materials based on Tin monochalcogenides in solar cell technology.

In the present study, the combination of the First-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations and Monte Carlo (MC) methods are investigated on the structural, magneto-electronic and magneto-caloric properties of the anti-perovskite carbides Mn₃XC with X = Sn, Zn. Firstly, the electronic band structure and total/partial density of state of both Mn₃SnC and Mn₃ZnC are computed and compared to other theoretical and experimental works. Our results reveal that both Mn₃SnC and Mn₃ZnC structures exhibit a metallic behavior and the valence (VB) and conduction (CB) bands overlap considerably. Additionally, the magnetic and magneto-caloric properties including heat capacity (C), the entropy change (ΔS), adiabatic temperature (ΔT) and the refrigerant capacity (RC) were studied under the magnetic field ranging between 0 and 5 T for both anti-perovskites. Our findings suggest that both anti-perovskite carbide (Mn3SnC and Mn3ZnC) can act as an effective substrate for magnetic refrigeration.

Using the dynamic quantum Monte Carlo simulation, the dynamic magnetocaloric effect of a ferromagnetic multilayer nanographene (MNG) is studied within the dynamic Ising model under the applied of a time-dependent oscillating (h(t)) magnetic field. The influence of the amplitude h₀ and the period τ of the h(t) and the transverse field Ω on the thermal behavior of the dynamic order parameter and the dynamic magnetocaloric properties (the dynamic isothermal ΔS_T(T,h(t)) entropy change and the dynamic ΔT_adT,h(t) adiabatic change of temperature), the dynamic specific heat, the dynamic entropy and as well as the dynamic relative cooling power (RCP(t)) ferrimagnetic MNG are studied. Our predicted results may be a reference for future experiment and theoretical studies of the nanostructures.