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Yuan Y, Kotiuga M, Park TJ, Patel RK, Ni Y, Saha A, Zhou H, Sadowski JT, Al-Mahboob A, Yu H, Du K, Zhu M, Deng S, Bisht RS, Lyu X, Wu CTM, Ye PD, Sengupta A, Cheong SW, Xu X, Rabe KM, Ramanathan S. Hydrogen-induced tunable remanent polarization in a perovskite nickelate. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4717. [PMID: 38830914 PMCID: PMC11148064 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49213-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/28/2024] [Indexed: 06/05/2024] Open
Abstract
Materials with field-tunable polarization are of broad interest to condensed matter sciences and solid-state device technologies. Here, using hydrogen (H) donor doping, we modify the room temperature metallic phase of a perovskite nickelate NdNiO3 into an insulating phase with both metastable dipolar polarization and space-charge polarization. We then demonstrate transient negative differential capacitance in thin film capacitors. The space-charge polarization caused by long-range movement and trapping of protons dominates when the electric field exceeds the threshold value. First-principles calculations suggest the polarization originates from the polar structure created by H doping. We find that polarization decays within ~1 second which is an interesting temporal regime for neuromorphic computing hardware design, and we implement the transient characteristics in a neural network to demonstrate unsupervised learning. These discoveries open new avenues for designing ferroelectric materials and electrets using light-ion doping.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yifan Yuan
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
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- Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
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Park TJ, Deng S, Manna S, Islam ANMN, Yu H, Yuan Y, Fong DD, Chubykin AA, Sengupta A, Sankaranarayanan SKRS, Ramanathan S. Complex Oxides for Brain-Inspired Computing: A Review. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2203352. [PMID: 35723973 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202203352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2022] [Revised: 06/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The fields of brain-inspired computing, robotics, and, more broadly, artificial intelligence (AI) seek to implement knowledge gleaned from the natural world into human-designed electronics and machines. In this review, the opportunities presented by complex oxides, a class of electronic ceramic materials whose properties can be elegantly tuned by doping, electron interactions, and a variety of external stimuli near room temperature, are discussed. The review begins with a discussion of natural intelligence at the elementary level in the nervous system, followed by collective intelligence and learning at the animal colony level mediated by social interactions. An important aspect highlighted is the vast spatial and temporal scales involved in learning and memory. The focus then turns to collective phenomena, such as metal-to-insulator transitions (MITs), ferroelectricity, and related examples, to highlight recent demonstrations of artificial neurons, synapses, and circuits and their learning. First-principles theoretical treatments of the electronic structure, and in situ synchrotron spectroscopy of operating devices are then discussed. The implementation of the experimental characteristics into neural networks and algorithm design is then revewed. Finally, outstanding materials challenges that require a microscopic understanding of the physical mechanisms, which will be essential for advancing the frontiers of neuromorphic computing, are highlighted.
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- Tae Joon Park
- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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Chen H, Dong M, Hu Y, Lin T, Zhang Q, Guo EJ, Gu L, Wu J, Lu Q. Protonation-Induced Colossal Chemical Expansion and Property Tuning in NdNiO 3 Revealed by Proton Concentration Gradient Thin Films. NANO LETTERS 2022; 22:8983-8990. [PMID: 36331193 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Protonation can be used to tune diverse physical and chemical properties of functional oxides. Although protonation of nickelate perovskites has been reported, details on the crystal structure of the protonated phase and a quantitative understanding of the effect of protons on physical properties are still lacking. Therefore, in this work, we select NdNiO3 (NNO) as a model system to understand the protonation process from pristine NNO to protonated HxNdNiO3 (H-NNO). We used a reliable electrochemical method with well-defined reference electrode to trigger the protonation-induced phase transition. We found that the protonated H-NNO phase showed a colossal ∼13% lattice expansion caused by a large tilt of NiO6 octahedra and displacement of Nd cations. Importantly, we further designed a novel device configuration to induce a gradient of proton concentration into a single NNO thin film to establish a quantitative correlation between the proton concentration and the lattice constant and transport property of H-NNO.
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- Haowen Chen
- Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People's Republic of China
- School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, People's Republic of China
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- Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory for Quantum Materials of Zhejiang Province, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, People's Republic of China
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- School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for Quantum Materials of Zhejiang Province, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, People's Republic of China
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- School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, People's Republic of China
- Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
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Chen Z, Yang H, Kang Z, Driess M, Menezes PW. The Pivotal Role of s-, p-, and f-Block Metals in Water Electrolysis: Status Quo and Perspectives. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2022; 34:e2108432. [PMID: 35104388 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202108432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Revised: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Transition metals, in particular noble metals, are the most common species in metal-mediated water electrolysis because they serve as highly active catalytic sites. In many cases, the presence of nontransition metals, that is, s-, p-, and f-block metals with high natural abundance in the earth-crust in the catalytic material is indispensable to boost efficiency and durability in water electrolysis. This is why alkali metals, alkaline-earth metals, rare-earth metals, lean metals, and metalloids receive growing interest in this research area. In spite of the pivotal role of these nontransition metals in tuning efficiency of water electrolysis, there is far more room for developments toward a knowledge-based catalyst design. In this review, five classes of nontransition metals species which are successfully utilized in water electrolysis, with special emphasis on electronic structure-catalytic activity relationships and phase stability, are discussed. Moreover, specific fundamental aspects on electrocatalysts for water electrolysis as well as a perspective on this research field are also addressed in this account. It is anticipated that this review can trigger a broader interest in using s-, p-, and f-block metals species toward the discovery of advanced polymetal-containing electrocatalysts for practical water splitting.
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- Ziliang Chen
- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, Metalorganics and Inorganic Materials, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17 Juni 135, Sekr. C2, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Metalorganics and Inorganic Materials, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17 Juni 135, Sekr. C2, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Metalorganics and Inorganic Materials, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17 Juni 135, Sekr. C2, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Metalorganics and Inorganic Materials, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17 Juni 135, Sekr. C2, 10623, Berlin, Germany
- Material Chemistry Group for Thin Film Catalysis - CatLab, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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