Pol Benítez Colominas

PhD student at UPC

Publications, conferences, awards and teaching

List of publications

2024:

arXiv preprint
P. Benítez, C. Lopéz, C. Liu, I. Caño, J. Ll. Tamarit, E. Saucedo and C. Cazorla.
Crystal Structure Prediction and Phase Stability in Highly Anharmonic Silver-Based Chalcohalide Anti-Perovskites. (submitted)
Advanced Functional Materials
C. Lopéz, I. Caño, D. Rovira, P. Benítez, J. M. Asensi, Z. Jehl, J Ll. Tamarit, E. Saucedo and C. Cazorla.
Machine-learning aided first-principles prediction of earth-abundant pnictogen chalcohalide solid solutions for solar-cell devices.
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
I. Caño, J. Turnley, P. Benítez, C. Lopéz, J. Asensi, D. Payno, J. Puigdollers, M. Placidi, C. Cazorla, R. Agrawal and E. Saucedo.
Synthesis of semiconductor chalcohalide anti-perovskites by low-temperature molecular precursor ink deposition methodologies.

Conferences

2024:

-"Electron-Phonon Coupling Induces Giant Band Gap Reduction in Optoelectronic Materials". Oral presentation at NEXTGEN 2024. Palma de Mallorca, Spain. (September 2024)
-"Predicting Thermal Effects on Optoelectronic Properties of Solid Solutions Using Crystal Graph Neural Networks". Oral presentation at Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Materials 2024. Barcelona, Spain. (July 2024)
-"Giant Thermal Effects in the Optoelectronic Properties of Chalcohalide Anti-Perovskite Materials". Oral presentation at EMRS Spring Meeting 2024. Strasbourg, France. (May 2024)
-"Theoretical and Experimental Characterization of Highly Anharmonic Chalcohalide Anti-Perovskites for Energy Applications". Oral presentation at 2024 MRS Spring Meeting. Seattle, USA. (April 2024)
-"Fast and Reliable Crystal Structure Prediction Using Random Search Algorithms and Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials". Oral presentation at Machine Learning Conference for X-Ray and Neutron-Based Experiments. Munich, Germany. (April 2024)

2023:

-"Novel phases and optoelectronic properties of antiperovskite chalco-halides from first-principles simulations". Oral presentation at 13th European Kesterite+ Workshop. Barcelona, Spain. (July 2023)
-"Introduction to Machine Learning for Materials Science". Pre-workshop PhD student day session at 13th European Kesterite+ Workshop. Barcelona, Spain. (July 2023)

Awards and grants

Reference people

PhD advisors:

Secondment Advisor (University of Cambridge):

Teaching