Poncé Research Group
The Electron-Phonon group is part of the Modelling (MODL) division of the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences (IMCN) at the Université catholique de Louvain led by Samuel Poncé. Our expertise is centred around the development of advanced theoretical and computational methods for designing innovative materials with applications in information transport, optoelectronics and renewable energy. We develop and unify new first-principles theories to predict various materials properties at finite temperature and implement them in free and open-source software.
Fields of expertise
Materials modelling
First-principles calculations
Density Functional Perturbation Theory
Electron-phonon coupling
Carrier transport
Nitrides
Rare-earth doped phosphors
Sustainable software development
Phonon-limited superconductivity
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)