Impact of terahertz short pulses on the oxygen defect state in TiO$_{2-x}$

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Autori principali: Di Pietro, Paola, Schmidt, Johannes, Adhlakha, Nidhi, Chaluvadi, Sandeep Kumar, Mazzola, Federico, Stopponi, Veronica, Tomarchio, Luca, Orgiani, Pasquale, Lupi, Stefano, Perucchi, Andrea
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author Di Pietro, Paola
Schmidt, Johannes
Adhlakha, Nidhi
Chaluvadi, Sandeep Kumar
Mazzola, Federico
Stopponi, Veronica
Tomarchio, Luca
Orgiani, Pasquale
Lupi, Stefano
Perucchi, Andrea
author_facet Di Pietro, Paola
Schmidt, Johannes
Adhlakha, Nidhi
Chaluvadi, Sandeep Kumar
Mazzola, Federico
Stopponi, Veronica
Tomarchio, Luca
Orgiani, Pasquale
Lupi, Stefano
Perucchi, Andrea
contents Oxygen deficient titanium dioxide (TiO$_{2-x}$) is a very attractive material for several applications ranging from photocatalysis to resistive switching. Oxygen vacancies turn insulating anatase titanium dioxide into a polaronic conductor, while creating a defect state band below the ultraviolet semiconducting gap. Here we employ a combination of broadband infrared (IR) reflectivity and THz-pump/IR-probe measurements to investigate the relationship between localized defect states and delocalized conducting polaronic states. We show that the THz pump allows to convert deeply localized electrons into metastable polarons with a lifetime in the ns range. These long-lived metastable states may find application in novel opto-electronic applications exploiting the interplay of dc resistivity, with terahertz and infrared signals.
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spellingShingle Impact of terahertz short pulses on the oxygen defect state in TiO$_{2-x}$
Di Pietro, Paola
Schmidt, Johannes
Adhlakha, Nidhi
Chaluvadi, Sandeep Kumar
Mazzola, Federico
Stopponi, Veronica
Tomarchio, Luca
Orgiani, Pasquale
Lupi, Stefano
Perucchi, Andrea
Materials Science
Oxygen deficient titanium dioxide (TiO$_{2-x}$) is a very attractive material for several applications ranging from photocatalysis to resistive switching. Oxygen vacancies turn insulating anatase titanium dioxide into a polaronic conductor, while creating a defect state band below the ultraviolet semiconducting gap. Here we employ a combination of broadband infrared (IR) reflectivity and THz-pump/IR-probe measurements to investigate the relationship between localized defect states and delocalized conducting polaronic states. We show that the THz pump allows to convert deeply localized electrons into metastable polarons with a lifetime in the ns range. These long-lived metastable states may find application in novel opto-electronic applications exploiting the interplay of dc resistivity, with terahertz and infrared signals.
title Impact of terahertz short pulses on the oxygen defect state in TiO$_{2-x}$
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12606