Experimental Progress in Superconducting Nickelates

BY Wang, K Lee, BH Goodge - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The superconducting nickelates were first proposed as potential analogs to the cuprate
unconventional superconductors in 1999, but it took twenty years before superconductivity …

Superconducting Nd1−xEuxNiO2 thin films using in situ synthesis

W Wei, D Vu, Z Zhang, FJ Walker, CH Ahn - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
We report on superconductivity in Nd1− x Eu x NiO2 using Eu as a 4f dopant of the parent
NdNiO2 infinite-layer compound. We use an all–in situ molecular beam epitaxy reduction …

Limits to the strain engineering of layered square-planar nickelate thin films

D Ferenc Segedin, BH Goodge, GA Pan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The layered square-planar nickelates, Nd n+ 1Ni n O2 n+ 2, are an appealing system to tune
the electronic properties of square-planar nickelates via dimensionality; indeed …

Advances in complex oxide quantum materials through new approaches to molecular beam epitaxy

G Rimal, RB Comes - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), a workhorse of the semiconductor industry, has progressed
rapidly in the last few decades in the development of novel materials. Recent developments …

Valence-ordered thin-film nickelate with tri-component nickel coordination prepared by topochemical reduction

A Raji, Z Dong, V Porée, A Subedi, X Li, B Mundet… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The metal-hydride-based “topochemical reduction” process has produced several
thermodynamically unstable phases across various transition metal oxide series with …

In Situ Preparation of Superconducting Infinite‐Layer Nickelate Thin Films with Atomically Flat Surface

W Sun, Z Wang, B Hao, S Yan, H Sun, Z Gu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Since their discovery, the infinite‐layer nickelates have been regarded as an appealing
system for gaining deeper insights into high temperature superconductivity (HTSC) …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis of thin film infinite-layer nickelates by atomic hydrogen reduction: clarifying the role of the capping layer

CT Parzyck, V Anil, Y Wu, BH Goodge, M Roddy… - APL Materials, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present an integrated procedure for the synthesis of infinite-layer nickelates using
molecular-beam epitaxy with gas-phase reduction by atomic hydrogen. We first discuss …

Extensive hydrogen incorporation is not necessary for superconductivity in topotactically reduced nickelates

PP Balakrishnan, D Ferenc Segedin, LE Chow… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A key open question in the study of layered superconducting nickelate films is the role that
hydrogen incorporation into the lattice plays in the appearance of the superconducting state …

Base Metals Induced Oxygen Migration and Adjustable Performance in Multifunctional Oxide Heterojunction Devices

M Yang, Y Liu, G Chen, J Ou, J Peng… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The chemical and electronic interactions at metal/oxide heterojunctions is pivotal in
determining the electronic properties of oxide devices utilized in microelectronics, catalysis …

Scanning tunneling microscopy and x-ray photoemission studies of infinite-layer nickelates films

M Rath, Y Chen, G Krieger, H Sahib, D Preziosi… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
We report scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and x-ray photoemission spectroscopy
(XPS) measurements on uncapped and SrTiO 3 (STO) capped NdNiO 2 realized by pulsed …