Monday, March 25, 2013

1303.5640 (S. Moser et al.)

Tunable polaronic conduction in anatase TiO2    [PDF]

S. Moser, L. Moreschini, J. Jacimovic, O. S. Barisic, H. Berger, A. Magrez, Y. J. Chang, K. S. Kim, A. Bostwick, E. Rotenberg, L. Forro, M. Grioni
Oxygen vacancies created in anatase TiO2 by UV photons (80 - 130 eV) provide an effective electron-doping mechanism and induce a hitherto unobserved dispersive metallic state. Angle resolved photoemission (ARPES) reveals that the quasiparticles are large polarons. These results indicate that anatase can be tuned from an insulator to a polaron gas to a weakly correlated metal as a function of doping and clarify the nature of conductivity in this material.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5640

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