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Neutron spectroscopy & H*10 dosimetry with tensioned metastable fluid detectors
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Gamma-blindness & neutron detection efficiency assessments with centrifugally tensioned metastable fluid detectors in low-scatter environment
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Metastable oxygen vacancy ordering state and improved memristive behavior in TiO2 crystals
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Electrical Potential Investigation of Reversible Metastability and Irreversible Degradation of CdTe Solar Cells
In this paper, we report on the stability of CdTe devices with a structure of TCO/MZO/CdSeTe/CdTe/back-contact. The device showed reversible transitions between the light-soak state (LSS) with the best device efficiency and the dark-soak state (DSS) with an inferior efficiency. However, it showed an irreversible degradation state (DgS) driven by long-hour light soaking at an elevated temperature. We have investigated transitions between these three states from the perspective of the electric field by nm-resolution potential imaging across the devices using Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM). The results exhibit different anomalous electric field profiles. At the LSS, the electric field exhibits a main peak inside the CdSeTe layer instead of the MZO/CdSeTe heterointerface, illustrating a buried homojunction (BHJ) of the device. At the DSS, a large electric field peak at the MZO/CdSeTe interface was measured, which probably resulted in the inferior fill factor at the DSS. At the DgS, the electric field peak at the MZO/CdSeTe interface increased further and a third electric field was measured at the back contact of the device. Device modeling using COMSOL software, in alignment with both the electric field and device current-voltage curves, elucidates that a low n-doped CdSeTe in the region near the MZO/CdSeTe interface caused the BHJ in the LSS and a loss of MZO doping and/or increase of the conduction band offset spike due to long-term stress caused the increased electric field near the MZO/CdSeTe interface at the DgS.
A Metastable Contact and Structural Disorder in the Estrogen Receptor Transactivation Domain
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Metastable polar orthorhombic local structure of hydrothermally grown HfO2 nanocrystals
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Pushing the Limits of Metastability in Semiconducting Perovskite Oxides for Visible-Light-Driven Water Oxidation
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Ion Exchange Synthesizes a Metastable Layered Polymorph of MgZrN 2 and MgHfN 2 Semiconductors
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Pt-Driven Stable and Metastable Ternary Compounds with Tunable Partial Flat Bands in Immiscible Si–Sn System
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Synthesis and Characterization of Metastable Cobalt Honeycomb KCoAsO 4
The Kitaev model has served as a long-sought-after target in the realization of a quantum spin liquid that could host Majorana Fermions. Such non-Abelian anyons could revolutionize quantum computing if properly implemented to overcome decoherence. A 3d 7 electronic configuration, like Co 2+ , has been explored by theory and experimental work to design Kitaev materials. Here, in this study, we report the synthesis of a new cobaltate honeycomb material KCoAsO 4 . The compound is synthesized through a low-temperature solution route and crystallized in space group R¯3 with lattice parameters a = 5.0394(1) and c = 28.6790(1) as determined by neutron powder diffraction. The crystal structure follows motifs similar to those of the honeycomb compound BaCo2(AsO 4 ) 2 but presents differing magnetic behavior. Magnetization/heat capacity measurements on the powder show antiferromagnetic transition T N = 14 K. Two lower-temperature transitions are present in susceptibility at low field that resemble spin reorientations. Magnetization data as a function of field have curvature indicative of metamagnetic behavior below the magnetic ordering temperature, with the magnetic ordering suppressed upon application of a higher magnetic field. Computational studies suggest the presence of a weak nearest-neighbor Kitaev term, K 1 , consistent with related honeycomb cobaltates. Together, the data suggest that this material should present a new platform for developing Kitaev quantum spin liquids.