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小松 遊矢*; 清水 亮太*; 佐藤 龍平*; Wilde, M.*; 西尾 和記*; 片瀬 貴義*; 松村 大樹; 齋藤 寛之*; 宮内 雅浩*; Adelman, J. R.*; et al.
Chemistry of Materials, 34(8), p.3616 - 3623, 2022/04
被引用回数：9 パーセンタイル：76.65(Chemistry, Physical)Here, we demonstrate such a highly repeatable photoinduced insulator-to-metal transition in yttrium oxyhydride (YO
H
) epitaxial thin films. The temperature (
) dependence of the electrical resistivity (
) of the films transforms from insulating to metallic (
) under ultraviolet laser illumination. The sample is heated (125 
C) under an Ar atmosphere to recover its original insulating state. The films recover their original metallic conductivity when subsequently subjected to ultraviolet laser illumination, showing repeatable photoinduced insulator-to-metal transition. First principles calculations show that the itinerant carriers originate from the variations in the charge states of the hydrogen atoms that occupy octahedral interstitial sites. This study indicates that tuning the site occupancy (octahedral/tetrahedral) of the hydrogen atoms exerts a significant effect on the photoresponse of metal hydrides.
小松 遊矢*; 清水 亮太*; Wilde, M.*; 小林 成*; 笹原 悠輝*; 西尾 和記*; 重松 圭*; 大友 明*; 福谷 克之; 一杉 太郎*
Crystal Growth & Design, 20(9), p.5903 - 5907, 2020/09
被引用回数：5 パーセンタイル：53.04(Chemistry, Multidisciplinary)This paper reports the epitaxial growth of EuH
thin films with an 
-scan full width at half-maximum of 0.07, the smallest value for metal hydride thin films reported so far. The thin films were deposited on yttria-stabilized ZrO (111) substrates using reactive magnetron sputtering. The magnetization measurement showed that the saturation magnetization is 
7 
/Eu atom, indicating that the EuH films are nearly stoichiometric (x 
2.0) and that the Curie temperature is 20 K. The optical measurements showed a bandgap of 1.81 eV. These values are similar to those previously reported for bulk EuH. This study paves the way for the application of metal hydrides in the field of electronics through the fabrication of high-quality metal hydride epitaxial thin films.
