Ambipolarity of hydrogen in matter revealed by muons

R Kadono, H Hosono - Advances in Physics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Despite being the simplest element, hydrogen (H) exhibits complex behavior in materials
due to its unique ambipolar character. In particular, it is recognized as one of the most …

Toward the computational prediction of muon sites and interaction parameters

P Bonfà, R De Renzi - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2016 - journals.jps.jp
The rapid developments of computational quantum chemistry methods and supercomputing
facilities motivate the renewed interest in the analysis of the muon/electron interactions in …

Slow-muon study of quaternary solar-cell materials: Single layers and junctions

HV Alberto, RC Vilão, RBL Vieira, JM Gil… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
Thin films and pn junctions for solar cells based on the absorber materials Cu (In, G a) Se 2
and Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 were investigated as a function of depth using implanted low energy …

Muon contact hyperfine field in metals: A DFT calculation

IJ Onuorah, P Bonfà, R De Renzi - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
In positive muon spin rotation and relaxation spectroscopy it is becoming customary to take
advantage of density functional theory (DFT) based computational methods to aid the …

Isolated hydrogen configurations in zirconia as seen by muon spin spectroscopy and ab initio calculations

RBL Vieira, RC Vilão, AG Marinopoulos, PM Gordo… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We present a systematic study of isolated hydrogen in diverse forms of ZrO 2 (zirconia), both
undoped and stabilized in the cubic phase by additions of transition-metal oxides (Y 2 O 3 …

Muonium donor in rutile and comparison with hydrogen

RC Vilão, RBL Vieira, HV Alberto, JM Gil, A Weidinger… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Muonium, a positive muon and an electron, is often used as an experimentally accessible
substitute for hydrogen in materials research. In semiconductors and insulators, a large …

Electronic structure of interstitial hydrogen in lutetium oxide from calculations and comparison study with spectroscopy

EL Da Silva, AG Marinopoulos, RBL Vieira, RC Vilão… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
The electronic structure of hydrogen impurity in Lu 2 O 3 was studied by first-principles
calculations and muonium spectroscopy. The computational scheme was based on two …

Hydrogen impurity in yttria: Ab initio and SR perspectives

EL Silva, AG Marinopoulos, RC Vilão, RBL Vieira… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
The incorporation of interstitial hydrogen in yttria was studied by means of ab initio
calculations based on density-functional theory (DFT) and muonium spin polarization …

[HTML][HTML] Ambipolarity of diluted hydrogen in wide-gap oxides revealed by muon study

M Hiraishi, H Okabe, A Koda, R Kadono… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Muon spin rotation has long been recognized as one of the few methods for experimentally
accessing the electronic state of dilute hydrogen (H) in semiconductors and dielectrics …

Role of the transition state in muon implantation

RC Vilão, RBL Vieira, HV Alberto, JM Gil, A Weidinger - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
In muon-spin-rotation experiments, positive muons are implanted in the material and come
to rest in the unrelaxed host lattice. The formation of the final configuration requires a lattice …