Pol Benítez Colominas

Publications, conferences, awards and teaching

(submitted)
Chalcogen vacancies rule charge recombination in pinictogen chalcohalide solar-cell absorbers.
C. López, S. R. Kavanagh, P. Benítez, E. Saucedo, A. Walsh, D. O. Scanlon and C. Cazorla.
(submitted)
All about fundamental properties of (Sb,Bi)(S,Se)(Br,I) Van der Waals chalcohalides: a novel family of energy materials is emerging.
I. Caño, A. Navarro-Güell, E. Maggi, A. Gon Medaille, D. Rovira Ferrer, A. Jimenez Aguijo, O. Segura Blanch, A. Torrens, M. Jimenez Guerra, C. López, P. Benítez, C. Cazorla, Z. Jehl, Y. Gong, J. M. Asensi, L. Calvo Barrio, L. Soler, J. Llorca, J. L. Tamarit, B. Galiana, M. Dimitrievska, N. Ruiz Marin, H. Chun, L. Wong, J. Puigdollers, M. Placidi and E. Saucedo.
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Giant Thermally Induced Band-Gap Renormalization in Anharmonic Silver Chalcohalide Antiperovskites.
P. Benítez, S. Chen, R. Jiang, C. Lopéz, J. Ll. Tamarit, J. Íñiguez-González, E. Saucedo, B. Monserrat and C. Cazorla.
PRX Energy
Crystal Structure Prediction and Phase Stability in Highly Anharmonic Silver-Based Chalcohalide Anti-Perovskites.
P. Benítez, C. Lopéz, C. Liu, I. Caño, J. Ll. Tamarit, E. Saucedo and C. Cazorla.

Advanced Functional Materials
Machine-learning aided first-principles prediction of earth-abundant pnictogen chalcohalide solid solutions for solar-cell devices.
C. Lopéz, I. Caño, D. Rovira, P. Benítez, J. M. Asensi, Z. Jehl, J Ll. Tamarit, E. Saucedo and C. Cazorla.
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Synthesis of semiconductor chalcohalide anti-perovskites by low-temperature molecular precursor ink deposition methodologies.
I. Caño, J. Turnley, P. Benítez, C. Lopéz, J. Asensi, D. Payno, J. Puigdollers, M. Placidi, C. Cazorla, R. Agrawal and E. Saucedo.

-"Thermal Effects on Optoelectronics: A Graph Neural Network Approach". Oral presentation at AI4X 2025. Singapore, Singapore. (July 2025)
-"Thermal Effects on Anharmonic Semiconductor Optoelectronics via Graph Neural Networks". Oral presentation at ICMAT 2025. Singapore, Singapore. (June 2025)
-"Phonon-Driven Band Gap Engineering in Chalcohalide Anti-Perovskites". Oral presentation at ICMAT 2025. Singapore, Singapore. (June 2025)

-"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)

-"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)