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Revealing the Role of Hydrogen in Electron-Doping Mottronics for Strongly Correlated Vanadium Dioxide

Journal

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 13, Issue 34, Pages 8078-8085

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02001

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Funding

  1. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2021YFA0718900]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [62074014, 52073090]
  3. Beijing New -Star Plan of Science and Technology [Z191100001119071]
  4. Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS KAKENHI) [JP17H01057, JP18H05518]

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This study demonstrates the root cause of hydrogen-induced multiple electronic phase transitions by H-1 quantification using nuclear reaction analysis. Low hydrogenation temperature is crucial in achieving a large hydrogen concentration, while elevating the temperature surprisingly leads to the formation of more stable metallic states.
Hydrogen-associated electron-doping Mottronics for d-band correlated oxides (e.g., VO2) opens up a new paradigm to regulate the electronic functionality via directly manipulating the orbital configuration and occupancy. Nevertheless, the role of hydrogen in the Mottronic transition of VO2 is yet unclear because opposite orbital reconfigurations toward either the metallic or highly insulating states were both reported. Herein, we demonstrate the root cause for such hydrogen-induced multiple electronic phase transitions by H-1 quantification using nuclear reaction analysis. A low hydrogenation temperature is demonstrated to be vital in achieving a large hydrogen concentration (n(H) asymptotic to 10(22) cm(-3)) that further enhances the t(2g) orbital occupancy to trigger electron localizations. In contrast, elevating the hydrogenation temperatures surprisingly reduces n(H) to similar to 10(21) cm(-3) but forms more stable metallic H0.06VO2. This leads to the recognition of a weaker hydrogen interaction that triggers electron localization within VO2 via Mottronically enhancing the orbital occupancies.

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