An electron spin resonance (ESR) and photoluminescence signal is observed in the as grown single crystal of stishovite indicating the presence of defects in the non-irradiated sample. Photoluminescence of the as received stishovite single crystals exhibits two main bands - a blue at 3 eV and an UV at 4.75 eV. Luminescence is excited in the range of optical transparency of stishovite (below 8.75 eV) and, therefore, is ascribed to defects. A wide range of decay kinetics under a pulsed excitation is observed. For the blue band besides the exponential decay with a time constant of about 18 μs an additional ms component is revealed. For the UV band besides the fast component with a time constant of 1-3 ns a component with a decay in tens μs is obtained. The main components (18 μs and 1-3 ns) possess a typical intra-center transition intensity thermal quenching. The effect of the additional slow component is related to the presence of OH groups and/or carbon molecular defects modifying the luminescence center. The additional slow components exhibit wave-like thermal dependences. Photo-thermally stimulated creation-destruction of complex comprising host defect - interstitial modifiers explains slow luminescence wave-like thermal dependences.
In this work, we study the effect of doping the Rutile-type dioxide SnO2 material by the non-metal Sulfur (S) atoms on the electronic properties. In fact, we have used the ab-initio method applied on the basis of the Density Functional Theory (DFT) using the Quantum Espresso code. Through the density of states and the band structure calculations for different concentrations have been deduced. When doping the SnO2 material with 6% of Sulfur (S), we found a perfect symmetry between up and down spin states in the total DOS confirming the non-magnetic behavior of this material doped SnO2 with 6% o…
Rutile TiO2 is a paradigmatic transition metal oxide with applications in optics, electronics, photocatalysis, etc., that are subject to pervasive electron-phonon interaction. To understand how energies of its electronic bands, and in general semiconductors or metals where the frontier orbitals have a strong d-band character, depend on temperature, we perform a comprehensive theoretical and experimental study of the effects of electron-phonon (e-p) interactions. In a two-photon photoemission (2PP) spectroscopy study we observe an unusual temperature dependence of electronic band energies withi…
A metal oxide support and a catalytically active metal are the two main ingredients for complex catalysts used in heterogeneous catalysis. The gas environment can change the catalyst during the reaction, modifying its structural and electronic properties. Here, we use monochromated electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) to reveal hydrogen-pressure-dependent changes of the electronic structure at the Pd/rutile-TiO$_2$ interface in an environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM). Hydrogen-induced changes are observed in rutile-TiO$_2$ within $2$~nm from the interface at $10$~Pa of hyd…
Rutile germanium dioxide (r-GeO$_2$) is a recently predicted ultrawide-band-gap semiconductor with potential applications in high-power electronic devices, for which the carrier mobility is an important material parameter that controls the device efficiency. We apply first-principles calculations based on density functional and density functional perturbation theory to investigate carrier-phonon coupling in r-GeO$_2$ and predict its phonon-limited electron and hole mobilities as a function of temperature and crystallographic orientation. The calculated carrier mobilities at 300 K are $μ_{\text…
Vanadium dioxide undergoes a metal-insulator transition (MIT) from an insulating (monoclinic) to a metallic (tetragonal) phase close to room temperature, which makes it a promising functional material for many applications, e.g. as chemical sensors. Not much is known about its surface and interface properties, although these are critical in many of its applications. This work presents an atomic-scale investigation of the tetragonal rutile VO$_2$(110)$_\text{T}$ single-crystal surface and reports results obtained with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) a…
Synthesis of epitaxial TaO$_2$ thin films on Al$_2$O$_3$ by suboxide molecular-beam epitaxy and thermal laser epitaxy
Cornell University（康奈尔大学）；Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials (PARADIM), Cornell University（界面材料加速实现、分析和发现平台 (PARADIM)，康奈尔大学）；Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science（康奈尔卡弗里纳米科学研究所）；Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University（康奈尔大学材料科学与工程系）；School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University（康奈尔大学应用工程物理学院）
Observation of mirror-odd and mirror-even spin texture in ultrathin epitaxially strained RuO2 films
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities（明尼苏达大学双城分校）；Kyung Hee University（庆熙大学）；Rice University（莱斯大学）；Paul Scherrer Institute（保罗谢勒研究所）；Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)（光州科学技术院）
