dopantwould
Dopantwould is a hypothetical construct in materials science used to describe a class of dopants that, if realizable, would optimally modulate the electronic structure of a host material while minimizing common drawbacks of real dopants. The term combines dopant with would to emphasize its status as a theoretical ideal rather than a specific chemical species.
Ideally, a dopantwould would occupy lattice sites with high solubility, produce shallow energy levels with small
In practice, dopantwould is used in computational studies and conceptual design to bound achievable performance and
Critics note that as a hypothetical ideal, dopantwould cannot be synthesized, and real materials will exhibit