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太田　裕道(オオタ　ヒロミチ)
電子科学研究所　附属グリーンナノテクノロジー研究センター
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Last Updated :2024/05/09

基本情報

所属

  • 電子科学研究所　附属グリーンナノテクノロジー研究センター

職名

  • 教授

学位

  • 博士（工学）（2001年09月 東京工業大学）

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科研費研究者番号

  • 80372530

ORCID ID

Researcher ID

  • H-4468-2012

J-Global ID

プロフィール

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研究キーワード

  • 全固体電気化学熱トランジスタ   透明酸化物薄膜トランジスタ   酸化物熱電変換材料   エピタキシャル酸化物薄膜成長   

研究分野

  • ナノテク・材料 / 薄膜、表面界面物性 / 熱伝導率
  • ナノテク・材料 / 応用物性 / 熱電変換
  • ナノテク・材料 / 薄膜、表面界面物性 / 酸化物エレクトロニクス
  • ナノテク・材料 / 無機材料、物性 / 電気伝導性セラミックス

担当教育組織

職歴

  • 2021年04月 - 現在 北海道大学 電子科学研究所 副所長
  • 2012年09月 - 現在 北海道大学 電子科学研究所 教授
  • 2003年10月 - 2012年08月 名古屋大学大学院工学研究科 助教授/准教授
  • 2008年10月 - 2012年03月 科学技術振興機構さきがけ「ナノ製造技術の探索と展開」領域研究員（兼務）
  • 1999年11月 - 2004年09月 科学技術振興機構（JST） 創造科学技術推進事業（ERATO）細野透明電子活性プロジェクト
  • 1998年01月 - 2003年09月 HOYA株式会社
  • 1996年04月 - 1997年12月 三洋電機株式会社

学歴

  • 1998年10月 - 2001年09月   東京工業大学   大学院総合理工学研究科   物質科学創造専攻
  • 1994年04月 - 1996年03月   名古屋大学   大学院工学研究科   応用化学専攻
  • 1990年04月 - 1994年03月   埼玉大学   工学部   応用化学科

所属学協会

  • Materials Research Society   日本熱電学会   日本セラミックス協会   応用物理学会   

研究活動情報

論文

  • Hao-Bo Li, Zhiping Bian, Mitsuki Yoshimura, Kohei Shimoyama, Chengchao Zhong, Keiji Shimoda, Azusa N. Hattori, Kunihiko Yamauchi, Ikutaro Hamada, Hiromichi Ohta, Hidekazu Tanaka
    Applied Physics Letters 2024年05月06日
  • Ko Marunouchi, Lizhikun Gong, Hiromichi Ohta, Tsukasa Katayama
    Thin Solid Films 796 140339 - 140339 2024年05月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Lizhikun Gong, Ko Marunouchi, Akira Chikamatsu, Hiromichi Ohta, Tsukasa Katayama
    CrystEngComm 2024年04月24日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Perovskite BaTiO3 has been widely studied and utilized in various applications owing to its high permittivity, ferroelectricity, non-toxicity, and stability. However, its low ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition temperature (TC, 120 °C)...
  • Yaoming Liu, Binjie Chen, Yosuke Hamasaki, Lizhikun Gong, Hiromichi Ohta, Tsukasa Katayama
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 16 14 17832 - 17837 2024年04月01日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Morito Namba, Hiroshi Takatsu, Hao-Bo Li, Kantaro Murayama, Ryo Terada, Qian Yang, Takahito Terashima, Hiromichi Ohta, Hiroshi Kageyama
    Chemistry of Materials 36 4 2076 - 2084 2024年02月07日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Kungwan Kang, Fumiaki Kato, Akitoshi Nakano, Ichiro Terasaki, Takashi Endo, Yasutaka Matsuo, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Electronic Materials 5 5749 - 5754 2023年10月16日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Rui Yu, Lizhikun Gong, Hiromichi Ohta, Tsukasa Katayama
    ACS Applied Electronic Materials 5 5234 - 5239 2023年09月26日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Zhiping Bian, Qian Yang, Mitsuki Yoshimura, Hai Jun Cho, Joonhyuk Lee, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Takashi Endo, Yasutaka Matsuo, Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15 19 23512 - 23517 2023年05月03日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Lizhikun Gong, Rui Yu, Hiromichi Ohta, Tsukasa Katayama
    Dalton Transactions 2023年04月17日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    La-doped BaSnO3 (LBSO), which exhibits both high electron mobility and visible-light transparency, is a promising transparent electrode/transistor material that does not require expensive elements such as indium.
  • Binjie Chen, Chuchu Yang, Bin Feng, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Electronic Materials 5 4 2433 - 2438 2023年04月04日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Atsushi Tsurumaki-Fukuchi, Takayoshi Katase, Hiromichi Ohta, Masashi Arita, Yasuo Takahashi
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15 13 16842 - 16852 2023年03月23日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Qian Yang, Hai Jun Cho, Zhiping Bian, Mitsuki Yoshimura, Joonhyuk Lee, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Jinghuang Lin, Jiake Wei, Bin Feng, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    Advanced Functional Materials 33 19 2214939  2023年02月21日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Jason Tam, Peter M. Brodersen, Hiromichi Ohta, Uwe Erb
    Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 659 130829 - 130829 2023年02月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Prashant Ghediya, Hui Yang, Takashi Fujimoto, Yuqiao Zhang, Yasutaka Matsuo, Yusaku Magari, Hiromichi Ohta
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2023年01月25日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2023年
  • Sheng-Ying Chou, Hiroshi Masai, Masaya Otani, Hiromichi V. Miyagishi, Gentaro Sakamoto, Yusuke Yamada, Yusuke Kinoshita, Hitoshi Tamiaki, Takayoshi Katase, Hiromichi Ohta, Tomoki Kondo, Akinobu Nakada, Ryu Abe, Takahisa Tanaka, Ken Uchida, Jun Terao
    Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 327 122373  2023年01月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Nano 16 21013 - 21019 2022年12月27日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Hiromichi Ohta
    Journal of Applied Physics 132 18 185301 - 185301 2022年11月14日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is an excellent photocatalyst and transparent conducting oxide. It has two major crystal structures: rutile and anatase. Anatase TiO2 is valuable from an industrial point of view because it typically displays better photocatalytic and electronic transport properties than rutile TiO2. To further extract the functional properties of TiO2, understanding the correlation between the electronic structure and the crystal structure is essential. Because the electronic structure strongly depends on the crystal structure, introducing lattice distortion to rutile TiO2 should effectively modulate its electronic structure. Here, we show that Nb-doped rutile TiO2 epitaxial films on ([Formula: see text]) α-Al2O3 substrates exhibit anatase-like optoelectronic properties due to orthorhombic lattice distortions and experimentally observe the change in the electronic structure. Reducing the film thickness increases the orthorhombic distortion ratio ( b/ a) up to 3.4%. As b/ a increases, the carrier effective mass decreases from 35 to 3  m0 ( m0: electron mass) and the optical bandgap significantly increases. The present observations provide insight into regulating the TiO2 physical properties and should be beneficial for designing TiO2-based photocatalysts and transparent conducting electrodes.
  • Gowoon Kim, Hiromichi Ohta
    physica status solidi (a) 219 21 2200058 - 2200058 2022年11月 [査読有り][招待有り]
  • Hui Yang, Yuqiao Zhang, Yasutaka Matsuo, Yusaku Magari, Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Electronic Materials 4 10 5081 - 5086 2022年10月25日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Yuqiao Zhang, Hai Jun Cho, Feng Jiang, Chengliang Xia, Yue Chen, Weishu Liu, Hiromichi Ohta
    Nanotechnology 33 40 405702 - 405702 2022年10月01日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Abstract The electron and heat transports in solids are through the movement of carrier electrons and quantized lattice vibrations (phonons), which are sensitive to the lattice distortion and ionized impurities, and are essential aspects for the development of novel thermoelectric materials. In this study, we systematically investigated the modulations of electrical and thermal conductivities of BaTi1–xNbxO3 solid solution (BTNO, 0 ≤ x ≤ 1) epitaxial films. At room temperature, BaTiO3 belongs to tetragonal perovskite and exhibits electron conduction through doubly degenerated Ti 3d-t2g orbitals upon doping, while BaNbO3 belongs to cubic perovskite and exhibits metallic electron conduction through partially filled triply degenerate Nb 4d-t2g orbitals. By controlling the Ti/Nb ratio, we found a dual modulation effect on both the lattice structures and conduction band, which affects the electrical and thermal conductivities. Similar to the SrTi1–xNbxO3 solid solution (STNO, 0 ≤ x ≤ 1) system, a phase transition was detected at x ∼ 0.5, at which both the electron and heat transports exhibit abrupt changes. Unlike the transition in STNO, which was attributed to a polaronic phase transition, the transition in BTNO was due to contributions from both the lattice distortion and polaron effect. By controlling the lattice distortion, conduction band, and polaronic phase transitions, the electrical and thermal conductivity of BTNO epitaxial films are modulated within a much greater range than those of the STNO epitaxial films. Due to the double contribution of electron carriers and phonon to thermal conductivity (κ), the maximum κ modulation ratio of BTNO epitaxial films was ∼6.9. Our research provides an effective route to design electrical/thermal management materials.
  • Binjie Chen, Hiromichi Ohta, Tsukasa Katayama
    ACS Applied Electronic Materials 4 4547 - 4552 2022年08月23日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Katsuyuki Matsunaga, Masato Yoshiya, Naoya Shibata, Hiromichi Ohta, Teruyasu Mizoguchi
    Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan 130 8 648 - 667 2022年08月01日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Xi Zhang, Yuqiao Zhang, Liao Wu, Akihiro Tsuruta, Masashi Mikami, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14 29 33355 - 33360 2022年07月27日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Thermoelectric energy conversion technology has attracted attention as an energy harvesting technology that converts waste heat into electricity by means of the Seebeck effect. Oxide-based thermoelectric materials that show a high figure of merit are promising because of their good chemical and thermal stability as well as their harmless nature compared to chalcogenide-based state-of-the-art thermoelectric materials. Although several high-ZT thermoelectric oxides (ZT > 1) have been reported thus far, the reliability is low due to a lack of careful observation of their stability at elevated temperatures. Here, we show a reliable high-ZT thermoelectric oxide, Ba1/3CoO2. We fabricated Ba1/3CoO2 epitaxial films by the reactive solid-phase epitaxy method (Na3/4CoO2) followed by ion exchange (Na+ -> Ba2+) treatment and performed thermal annealing of the film at high temperatures and structural and electrical measurements. The crystal structure and electrical resistivity of the Ba1/3CoO2 epitaxial films were found to be maintained up to 600 degrees C. The power factor gradually increased to similar to 1.2 mW m(-1) K-2 and the thermal conductivity gradually decreased to similar to 1.9 W m(-1) K-1 with increasing temperature up to 600 degrees C. Consequently, the ZT reached similar to 0.55 at 600 degrees C in air.
  • Hiromichi Ohta
    Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan 130 7 471 - 476 2022年07月01日 [査読有り][招待有り]
  • Michihiko Yamanouchi, Yasufumi Araki, Takaki Sakai, Tetsuya Uemura, Hiromichi Ohta, Jun’ichi Ieda
    Science Advances 8 15 2022年04月15日 
    In a ferromagnetic Weyl metal SrRuO 3 , a large effective magnetic field Heff exerted on a magnetic domain wall (DW) by current has been reported. We show that the ratio of Heff to current density exhibits nonmonotonic temperature dependence and surpasses those of conventional spin-transfer torques and spin-orbit torques. This enhancement is described well by topological Hall torque (THT), which is exerted on a DW by Weyl electrons emerging around Weyl points when an electric field is applied across the DW. The ratio of the Heff arising from the THT to current density is over one order of magnitude higher than that originating from spin-transfer torques and spin-orbit torques reported in metallic systems, showing that the THT may provide a better way for energy-efficient manipulation of magnetization in spintronics devices.
  • Anup V. Sanchela, Mian Wei, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A 40 2 020803 - 020803 2022年03月 [査読有り][招待有り]
  • Hiroaki Nakade, Eita Tochigi, Bin Feng, Ryo Ishikawa, Hiromichi Ohta, Naoya Shibata, Yuichi Ikuhara
    Journal of the American Ceramic Society 105 3 2300 - 2308 2022年03月
  • Youjung Kim, Seonghyeon Kim, Hyeongmin Cho, Young Mo Kim, Hiromichi Ohta, Kookrin Char
    Physical Review Applied 17 1 2022年01月25日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Hai Jun Cho, Yuzhang Wu, Jiajun Qi, Yuna Kim, Hiromichi Ohta, Osamu Matsuda
    Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 91 1 2022年01月15日
  • Hiromichi Ohta
    International Journal of Thermophysics 2022年
  • Binjie Chen, Tetsuya Hasegawa, Hiromichi Ohta, Tsukasa Katayama
    Journal of Materials Chemistry C 10 14 5621 - 5626 2022年
  • Takayoshi Katase, Xinyi He, Terumasa Tadano, Jan M. Tomczak, Takaki Onozato, Keisuke Ide, Bin Feng, Tetsuya Tohei, Hidenori Hiramatsu, Hiromichi Ohta, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hideo Hosono, Toshio Kamiya
    ADVANCED SCIENCE 8 23 2021年12月 
    Introducing artificial strain in epitaxial thin films is an effective strategy to alter electronic structures of transition metal oxides (TMOs) and to induce novel phenomena and functionalities not realized in bulk crystals. This study reports a breaking of the conventional trade-off relation in thermopower (S)-conductivity (sigma) and demonstrates a 2 orders of magnitude enhancement of power factor (PF) in compressively strained LaTiO3 (LTO) films. By varying substrates and reducing film thickness down to 4 nm, the out-of-plane to the in-plane lattice parameter ratio is controlled from 0.992 (tensile strain) to 1.034 (compressive strain). This tuning induces the electronic structure change from a Mott insulator to a metal and leads to a 10(3)-fold increase in sigma up to 2920 S cm(-1). Concomitantly, the sign of S inverts from positive to negative, and both sigma and S increase and break the trade-off relation between them in the n-type region. As a result, the PF (=S-2 sigma) is significantly enhanced to 300 mu W m(-)(1)K(-2), which is 10(2) times larger than that of bulk LTO. Present results propose epitaxial strain as a means to finely tune strongly correlated TMOs close to their Mott transition, and thus to harness the hidden large thermoelectric PF.
  • Shun-ichiro Ito, Kaito Kanahashi, Hiromichi Ohta, Hiroshi Ito, Taishi Takenobu, Hisaaki Tanaka
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 119 18 2021年11月 
    Intermolecular interaction between a conducting polymer and a dopant molecule is a fundamental factor to determine the structure and electronic properties of doped films, whereas clear guidelines of the molecular design to control such interactions are absent. We compared the structure and transport properties of two typical electrochemically doped polythiophenes with different side chain densities: poly(3-hexylthiophene) and poly[bis(3-dodecyl-2-thienyl)-2,2-dithiophene-5,5-diyl] (PQT). X-ray diffraction patterns show that more conspicuous lattice expansion and crystallinity improvement take place after doping PQT, the low side chain density polymer, although the crystallinity of the pristine film is rather low. The crystallinity improvement results in a large increase in the electrical conductivity, reaching 140 S/cm after doping and indicating the importance of side chain engineering to optimize the electronic properties of the doped state. We further suggest the dynamic motion of the dopant molecules with a temperature gradient in the doped PQT film based on thermoelectromotive force measurements, indicating the weakly bound state of the dopant molecules.
  • Atsushi Tsurumaki-Fukuchi, Takayoshi Katase, Hiromichi Ohta, Masashi Arita, Yasuo Takahashi
    ECS Transactions 104 4 93 - 101 2021年10月01日
  • Joonhyuk Lee, Younghak Kim, Jinhyung Cho, Hiromichi Ohta, Hyoungjeen Jeen
    RSC Advances 11 51 32210 - 32215 2021年09月29日 [査読有り]
     
    We form flat oxide-interfaces, i.e. manganite- and titanate-oxygen sponges, and observe peculiar oxygen transport behaviors relying on chemical potential difference at the interfaces. Oxygen transport into oxygen-sponge leads weak ferromagnetism.
  • Gowoon Kim, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Electronic Materials 3 8 3619 - 3624 2021年08月06日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Shun Sasano, Ryo Ishikawa, Gabriel Sánchez-Santolino, Hiromichi Ohta, Naoya Shibata, Yuichi Ikuhara
    Nano Letters 21 14 6282 - 6288 2021年07月19日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Lithium lanthanum titanate (LLTO) is one of the excellent candidates for an electrolyte in the all-solid-state Li-ion battery, owing to the high Li-ion conductivity in the bullc However, the Li-ion conductivity at the grain boundary (GB) is largely reduced, and it is therefore important to reveal the origin of Li-ion conductivity reduction at the GB. Here, by using atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy combined with atomic force microscopy, we investigate the charge states, Li-ion conductivities, atomic and electronic structures at the LLTO Sigma 5 and Sigma 13 GBs. Although the Sigma 5 GB has no significant influence on Li-ion conductivity, the Sigma 13 GB shows the evident reduction of Li-ion conductivity. We further elucidate that the Sigma 13 GB is positively charged by the formation of oxygen vacancies at the GB. Such a positive charge would form the Li-ion depletion layers adjacent to the GB, which causes the significant reduction of Li-ion conductivity.
  • Qian Yang, Joonhyuk Lee, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Electronic Materials 3 7 3296 - 3300 2021年07月14日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Ang Tao, Tingting Yao, Yixiao Jiang, Lixin Yang, Xuexi Yan, Hiromichi Ohta, Yuichi Ikuhara, Chunlin Chen, Hengqiang Ye, Xiuliang Ma
    Nano Letters 21 13 5586 - 5592 2021年07月14日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Jiajun Qi, Yuzhang Wu, Hai Jun Cho, Yuna Kim, Hiromichi Ohta, Nobuyuki Tamaoki
    Journal of Materials Science 56 27 15481 - 15490 2021年06月22日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    The polymerization of monomeric diacetylene (DA) crystals exhibits a strong dependence on the intermolecular distance relative to the van der Waals distance, which can be tuned with macroscopic mechanical stimuli. In this study, we report the effect of external pressure on the heat transport characteristics of bisamide functionalized DA (BA-DA) crystals. The thermal conductivity (kappa) of BA-DA crystals in the monomeric state could be enhanced with pressure from 0.42 +/- 0.13 W m(-1) K-1(<= 30 MPa) to 1.10 +/- 0.50 W m(-1) K-1(>= 50 MPa) but was not significantly affected by the structural change after photopolymerization. Raman and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy revealed that the kappa of the BA-DA crystals is correlated with the IR-active vibrational modes of N-H and C=O bonds correlated with the intermolecular hydrogen bonding. The UV polymerization significantly affected the Raman-active vibrational modes of monomers (-C C-C C-), but their effect on the kappa was negligible, which is likely attributed to the anharmonic interatomic potential. These results can potentially be utilized in polymer-based material design for thermal management technologies, such as printing heat circuits in an economically viable way or realizing a thermal barrier coating based on DA monomers.
  • Qian Yang, Hai Jun Cho, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Hiromichi Ohta
    Journal of Applied Physics 129 21 215303 - 215303 2021年06月02日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Shuji Kawasaki, Akitoshi Nakano, Hiroki Taniguchi, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta, Fumihiko Nakamura, Ichiro Terasaki
    Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 90 6 063601 - 063601 2021年05月19日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    We have measured and analyzed the in-plane thermal diffusivity of the Mott insulator Ca2RuO4 around room temperature under external currents with an infrared camera as a contactless thermometer. We find that the thermal diffusivity decreases by 40% for an external current density of 14A/cm(2). This large impact on lattice properties highly nontrivial in the sense that the external current primarily affects the electronic states. A possible explanation for this is discussed.
  • Yuqiao Zhang, Hai Jun Cho, Kenyu Sugo, Masashi Mikami, Sungmin Woo, Myung‐Chul Jung, Yao‐Hua Zhuang, Bin Feng, Yu‐Miin Sheu, Woosuck Shin, Woo Seok Choi, Myung Joon Han, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    Journal of the American Ceramic Society 104 8 4075 - 4085 2021年03月26日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Electron-doped SrTiO3 has been attracting attention as oxide thermoelectric materials, which can convert wasted heat into electricity. The power factor of the electron-doped SrTiO3, including SrTiO3-LaTiO3 and SrTiO3-SrNbO3 solid solutions, has been clarified. However, their thermal conductivity (kappa) has not been clearly identified thus far. Only a high kappa (>12 W m(-1) K-1) has been assumed from the electron contribution based on Wiedemann-Franz law. Here, we show that the kappa of the electron-doped SrTiO3 is lower than the assumed kappa, and its highest ZT exceeded 0.1 at room temperature. The kappa slightly decreased with the carrier concentration (n) when n is below 4 x 10(21) cm(-3). In the case of SrTiO3-SrNbO3 solid solutions, an upturn in kappa was observed when n exceeds 4 x 10(21) cm(-3) due to the contribution of conduction electron to the kappa. On the other hand, kappa decreased in the case of SrTiO3-LaTiO3 solid solutions probably due to the lattice distortion, which scatters both electrons and phonons. The highest ZT was 0.11 around n = 1 x 10(21) cm(-3). These findings would be useful for the future design of electron-doped SrTiO3-based thermoelectric materials.
  • 藤原 宏平, 北村 未歩, 志賀 大亮, 丹羽 尉博, 堀場 弘司, 野島 勉, 太田 裕道, 組頭 広志, 塚﨑 敦
    応用物理学会学術講演会講演予稿集 2021.1 1272 - 1272 公益社団法人 応用物理学会 2021年02月26日
  • Hai Jun Cho, Yuzhang Wu, Yu‐Qiao Zhang, Bin Feng, Masashi Mikami, Woosuck Shin, Yuichi Ikuhara, Yu‐Miin Sheu, Keiji Saito, Hiromichi Ohta
    Advanced Materials Interfaces 8 7 2001932 - 2001932 2021年02月15日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Heat conduction in ceramics is attributed to phonon propagation, which can be strongly suppressed at boundaries. Usually, polycrystals show lower thermal conductivity (kappa) than single crystals, as polycrystals contain many grain boundaries. For functional applications in thermal management technologies, ceramics with low thermal conductivity are required. While grain boundary engineering is effective for reducing kappa, its utilization is limited by the fact that other functional properties are often damaged. Here it is shown that single-crystalline oxide of InGaO3(ZnO)(m) with a natural superlattice structure exhibits anomalously lower kappa than polycrystals. Single-crystalline films of InGaO3(ZnO)(m) (m = integer), which has a superlattice structure of InO2-/GaO(ZnO)(m)(+) stacking along the c-axis with a controllable layer thickness of m, are fabricated. It is found that the kappa perpendicular to the superlattices decreases with decreasing m-value, and the minimum kappa is 1.1 W m(-1) K-1 (m = 4, 5), which is lower than randomly oriented polycrystalline InGaO3(ZnO)(m). On the other hand, the kappa parallel to the superlattices have similar values with those of polycrystalline. The present finding suggests that layer boundaries between different components inside single crystal can also function as thermal resistance, which will be useful for the material design of thermal management technologies.
  • Gowoon Kim, Bin Feng, Sangkyun Ryu, Hai Jun Cho, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13 5 6864 - 6869 2021年02月10日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Keisuke Nakamura, Tomoya Oshikiri, Kosei Ueno, Hiromichi Ohta, Hiroaki Misawa
    Chemistry Letters 50 2 374 - 377 2021年02月05日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Doudou Liang, Bin-jie Chen, Bin Feng, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Nano Materials 3 12 12427 - 12432 2020年12月24日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Mian Wei, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2 12 3971 - 3976 2020年12月22日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Tianshu Zhai, Rongbin Wang, Takayoshi Katase, Frances Quigley, Hiromichi Ohta, Patrick Amsalem, Norbert Koch, Steffen Duhm
    ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2 12 3994 - 4001 2020年12月22日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Kaito Kanahashi, Yong-Young Noh, Won-Tae Park, Hoichang Yang, Hiromichi Ohta, Hisaaki Tanaka, Taishi Takenobu
    Physical Review Research 2 4 043330  2020年12月07日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Wearable thermoelectric conversion devices are one of the key technologies for future sustainable society, and flexible conducting polymer films are strong candidates for these applications. However, the thermoelectric transport mechanism of these materials is still unclear due to their unique disordered nature, in particular the poor interconnectivity between crystalline domains. Here, to overcome this limit, donor-acceptor (D-A) copolymer films are selected because of the efficient connection between domains via rigid tie molecules. We investigated their thermoelectric and carrier transport properties using the electrolyte-gating technique and perfectly described both of them based on the two-dimensional variable range hopping model with a linear density of states around the Fermi level energy. The present results provide a fundamental understanding of the thermoelectric physics in D-A copolymer films towards application in wearable devices.
  • Gowoon Kim, Bin Feng, Yu-Miin Sheu, Hai Jun Cho, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    ECS Meeting Abstracts 2020年11月23日
  • Qian Yang, Hai Jun Cho, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Hiromichi Ohta
    ECS Meeting Abstracts 2020年11月23日
  • Hiroaki Nakade, Eita Tochigi, Bin Feng, Yukio Nezu, Hiromichi Ohta, Naoya Shibata, Yuichi Ikuhara
    Journal of the American Ceramic Society 2020年11月05日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    © 2020 American Ceramic Society (ACERS) Tetragonal yttria-stabilized zirconia thin film was successfully fabricated by a pulsed laser deposition method. The thin film grew heteroepitaxially with the orientation relationship of (Formula presented.) ZrO2‖ (Formula presented.) Al2O3. Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy mapping revealed that Y3+ ions were distributed homogeneously without local segregations. X-ray and electron-diffraction analysis confirmed a single crystalline structural feature of the film. On the other hand, high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy observations show that this film contains small-angle tilt grain boundaries, which is composed of the periodic array of dislocations with the Burgers vector (Formula presented.).
  • Dou-Dou Liang, Binjie Chen, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2 10 3454 - 3458 2020年10月27日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Yugo Takashima, Yu-qiao Zhang, Jiake Wei, Bin Feng, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    Journal of Materials Chemistry A 9 1 274 - 280 2020年10月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     

    A high ZT of 0.11 at room temperature was realized in layered cobalt oxide by substitution of heavy atomic mass Ba.

  • Ichiro Terasaki, Isuzu Sano, Kosuke Toda, Shuji Kawasaki, Akitoshi Nakano, Hiroki Taniguchi, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta, Fumihiko Nakamura
    Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 89 9 093707 - 093707 2020年09月15日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    We have measured and analyzed the nonlinear conduction of the Mott insulator Ca2RuO4 with square wave and square-pulse currents around room temperature with an infrared camera as a contactless thermometer. By combining the thermal diffusivity measurements, we have found that the temperature increase due to self heating is explained by the conduction of the Joule heat through the sample to the heat bath. We further find a time scale of the nonlinear conduction to be 20 ms, which is consistent with thermal relaxation time of the sample. We propose that a steady dissipation of external energy flow characterizes the non-equilibrium steady state of Ca2RuO4, rather than a steady current flow.
  • Fabian Krahl, Yuzhang Wu, Hai Jun Cho, Maarit Karppinen, Hiromichi Ohta
    Advanced Electronic Materials 6 2000404 - 2000404 2020年09月11日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Gowoon Kim, Bin Feng, Yu-Miin Sheu, Hai Jun Cho, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2 8 2507 - 2513 2020年08月25日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Copyright © 2020 American Chemical Society. Materials showing unusual electron and heat conduction such as the coexistence of high electron conduction and low heat conduction are essentially important to realize efficient thermal management systems. Although introducing point defects or layers is known as an effective way to reduce the thermal conductivity, the coexistence of high electron conduction and low heat conduction is still challenging because of the fact that electrons and phonons are scattered simultaneously by impurities, defects, and boundaries. Although oxygen-deficient tungsten oxide (WOx) films (2.7 < x < 3.0) show the desired properties, the origin is still unclear. Here, we report that one-dimensional (1D) atomic defect tunnels give rise to the coexistence of low thermal conductivity and high electrical conductivity of WOx films. We fabricated WOx epitaxial films on LaAlO3 substrates under a precisely controlled oxygen atmosphere. Crystallographic analyses revealed that 1D atomic defect tunnels are formed randomly along the rectangular-shaped grains in the in-plane direction. The cross-plane thermal conductivity of the WOx films dramatically decreased with decreasing x, while the electrical conductivity drastically increased because of an increase of carrier electrons, and high electron conduction and low heat conduction coexist when x < 2.9. The present finding would be useful to design efficient thermal management materials.
  • Qian Yang, Joonhyuk Lee, Bin Feng, Yuichi Ikuhara, Gowoon Kim, Hai Jun Cho, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Hiromichi Ohta
    ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2 7 2250 - 2256 2020年07月28日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    © 2020 American Chemical Society. Strontium cobalt oxide (SrCoO2.5) has recently attracted increasing attention as its optoelectronic and magnetic properties can be widely controlled using electrochemical oxidation/protonation at room temperature in air. To utilize the versatile properties of SrCoO2.5, it is essential to evaluate the location of the Fermi energy (EF) in the electronic structure, which is sensitive to the oxidation state of the Co ions. Here, we show that thermopower is an excellent measure for analyzing the EF in SrCoO2.5 epitaxial films. The lattice mismatch causes grain size reduction, which induces a slight increase in the oxidation state of the Co ions due to additional adsorbed oxygen. Although X-ray spectroscopy analyses reveal that the difference of the oxidation state of the Co ions among the samples is small, an unusually large change in thermopower from +330 μV Kâ'1 (lattice-matched) to â'185 μV Kâ'1 (lattice-mismatched) is observed in the samples due to shifts in the EF to the lower energy side. The present results demonstrate the excellent sensitivity of thermopower measurements for analyzing the location of EF in the electronic structure of SrCoO2.5 in a practically usable environment.
  • Mian Wei, Lizhikun Gong, Dou‐dou Liang, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    Advanced Electronic Materials 6 7 2000100 - 2000100 2020年07月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Kohei Fujiwara, Miho Kitamura, Daisuke Shiga, Yasuhiro Niwa, Koji Horiba, Tsutomu Nojima, Hiromichi Ohta, Hiroshi Kumigashira, Atsushi Tsukazaki
    Chemistry of Materials 32 12 5272 - 5279 2020年06月23日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    In transition-metal oxides, the vast combinations of crystal structures and metal ions provide a fertile ground for tailoring their electronic properties. Using a thin-film growth technique creates an additional interface-related degree of freedom in the artificial heterostructures. However, in corundum-type and crystallographically related ternary compounds, the scarcity of oxides applicable to a lattice-matched electrode layer often impedes the electrical characterization of these heterostructures. Here, we report the synthesis of a thin film of a new corundum-type oxide that exhibits metallic conduction. By substituting Ru into the antiferromagnetic insulator Cr2O3 via pulsed laser deposition, we fabricated thin films of (Cr1-xRux)2O3 not known in bulk. The structural, electrical, and magnetic characterizations showed that the antiferromagnetic insulator became a paramagnetic metal at Ru contents x greater than approximately 0.40 while preserving the host corundum structure. Spectroscopic analyses revealed the formation of Ru 4d-derived bands at the Fermi level and the presence of Ru3+, which is a valence state of Ru rarely observed in oxides. The stabilization of the unusual Ru3+ state is attributed to the charge neutrality constraint in the robust Cr2O3-based framework as well as the kinetics-driven vacuum deposition process.
  • M. Timpel, M. V. Nardi, B. Wegner, G. Ligorio, L. Pasquali, M. Pätzel, S. Hecht, H. Ohta, N. Koch
    Adv. Mater. Interfaces 1902114  2020年05月04日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Dou-dou Liang, Yu-qiao Zhang, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 116 143503  2020年04月08日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Effect of lattice distortions on the electron and thermal transport properties of transparent oxide semiconductor Ba1-xSrxSnO3 solid solution films
    Hai Jun Cho, Koichi Sato, Mian Wei, Gowoon Kim, Hiromichi Ohta
    J. Appl. Phys. 127 115701  2020年03月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Hisaaki Tanaka, Kaito Kanahashi, Naoya Takekoshi, Hiroaki Mada, Hiroshi Ito, Yukihiro Shimoi, Hiromichi Ohta, Taishi Takenobu
    Science Adv. 6 7 eaay8065  2020年02月14日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Conducting polymer thin films containing inherent structural disorder exhibit complicated electronic, transport, and thermoelectric properties. The unconventional power-law relation between the Seebeck coefficient (S) and the electrical conductivity (sigma) is one of the typical consequences of this disorder, where no maximum of the thermoelectric power factor (P = S-2 sigma) has been observed upon doping, unlike conventional systems. Here, it is demonstrated that a thiophene-based semicrystalline polymer exhibits a clear maximum of P through wide-range carrier doping by the electrolyte gating technique. The maximum value appears around the macroscopic insulator-to-metal transition upon doping, which is firmly confirmed by the temperature dependence of sigma and magnetoresistance measurements. The effect of disorder on charge transport is suppressed in the metallic state, resulting in the conventional S-sigma relation described by the Mott equation. The present results provide a physical background for controlling the performance of conducting polymers toward the application to thermoelectric devices.
  • Arbitrary control of the diffusion potential between a plasmonic metal and a semiconductor by an angstrom-thick interface dipole layer
    Tomoya Oshikiri, Hiroki Sawayanagi, Keisuke Nakamura, Kosei Ueno, Takayoshi Katase, Hiromichi Ohta, Hiroaki Misawa
    J. Chem. Phys. 152 934705  2020年01月17日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Takaki Onozato, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 59 024002  2020年01月16日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Current-induced effective magnetic field in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3/LaAlO3/SrTiO3 structures
    Michihiko Yamanouchi, Tatsuro Oyamada, Hiromichi Ohta
    AIP Advances 10 015129  2020年01月14日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Mian Wei, Anup V. Sanchela, Bin Feng, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    Applied Physics Letters 116 022103  2020年01月13日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Phase Instability amid Dimensional Crossover in Artificial Oxide Crystal
    Seung Gyo Jeong, Taewon Min, Sungmin Woo, Jiwoong Kim, Yu-Qiao Zhang, Seong Won Cho, Jaeseok Son, Young-Min Kim, Jung Hoon Han, Sungkyun Park, Hu Young Jeong, Hiromichi Ohta, Suyoun Lee, Tae Won Noh, Jaekwang Lee, Woo Seok Choi, Seung Gyo Jeong, Taewon Min, Sungmin Woo, Jiwoong Kim, Yu-Qiao Zhang, Seong Won Cho, Jaeseok Son, Young-Min Kim, Jung Hoon Han, Sungkyun Park, Hu Young Jeong, Hiromichi Ohta, Suyoun Lee, Tae Won Noh, Jaekwang Lee* and Woo Seok Choi*
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 124 026401  2020年01月13日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Hai Jun Cho, Yugo Takashima, Yukio Nezu, Takaki Onazato, Hiromichi Ohta
    Advanced Materials Interfaces 7 1901816  2020年01月01日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Ferroelectric oxide thin film with an out-of-plane electrical conductivity
    Tingting Yao, Yixiao Jiang, Chunlin Chen, Xuexi Yan, Ang Tao, Lixin Yang, Chuihong Li, Kenyu Sugo, Hiromichi Ohta, Hengqiang Ye, Yuichi Ikuhara, Xiuliang Ma, Tingting Yao, Yixiao Jiang, Chunlin Chen*, Xuexi Yan, Ang Tao, Lixin Yang, Chuihong Li, Kenyu Sugo, Hiromichi Ohta, Hengqiang Ye, Yuichi Ikuhara, and Xiuliang Ma*
    Nano Lett. 2019年12月26日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Qian Yang, Hai Jun Cho, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Hiromichi Ohta
    Advanced Materials Interfaces 6 1901260 - 1901260 2019年12月22日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Surface charge accumulation and electrochemical protonation of transition metal oxides using water-infiltrated nanoporous glass
    Takayoshi Katase, Hiromichi Ohta
    Semiconductor Science and Technology 34 123001  2019年11月15日 [査読有り][招待有り]
  • Kaito Kanahashi, Masatou Ishihara, Masataka Hasegawa, Hiromichi Ohta, Taishi Takenobu, Kaito Kanahashi, Masatou Ishihara, Masataka Hasegawa, Hiromichi Ohta, and Taishi Takenobu*
    npj 2D Mater. Appl. 3 44  2019年11月08日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    This study reports on the thermoelectric properties of large-area graphene films grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods. Using the electric double layer gating technique, both the continuous doping of hole or electron carriers and modulation of the Fermi energy are achieved, leading to wide-range control of the Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity. Consequently, the maximum power factors of the CVD-grown large-area graphene films are 6.93 and 3.29 mW m(-1) K-2 for p- and n-type carrier doping, respectively. These results are the best values among large-scale flexible materials, such as organic conducting polymers and carbon nanotubes, suggesting that CVD-grown large-area graphene films have potential for thermoelectric applications.
  • Hai Jun Cho, Bin Feng, Takaki Onozato, Mian Wei, Anup V. Sanchela, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    Physical Review Materials 3 9 2019年09月03日 
    © 2019 American Physical Society. The electron mobility value of 320cm2V-1s-1 observed from La-doped BaSnO3 (LBSO) single crystals has a great potential in optoelectronic applications, but LBSO films exhibit much lower mobilities. Threading dislocations from the film/substrate mismatch are believed to be the main source of this phenomenon, but previous experiments suggest that they do not fully explain the mobility suppression. In this paper, we examined the thickness dependence of electrical and thermal transport properties of LBSO films fabricated in different oxidation environments. The results show that oxygen deficiency also affects the electron mobility of LBSO films, and the mobility suppression in LBSO films is dominated by different mechanisms depending on the thicknesses. LBSO films with different oxygen vacancy contents were fabricated using the pulsed laser deposition technique. The films deposited under higher oxidative conditions exhibited lower oxygen deficiency levels and superior transport properties whereas the threading dislocation densities remained unchanged. The highest mobility value observed in this paper was 120cm2V-1s-1, which is comparable to LBSO films fabricated on thick buffer layers. Our paper provides a broader perspective on understanding the mobility of LBSO films and confirms that threading dislocations are not the only factor.
  • High electron and thermal transport properties of La-doped BaSnO3 films fabricated under ozone atmosphere
    Hai Jun Cho, Bin Feng, Takaki Onozato, Mian Wei, Anup Sanchela, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    Phys. Rev. Materials 3 094601  2019年09月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Yuqiao Zhang, Kenyu Sugo, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    J. Appl. Phys. 126 075104  2019年08月21日 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Electrical, optical and thermal transport properties of oxygen deficient amorphous WOx (2.5 < x < 3) films
    Gowoon Kim, Hai Jun Cho, Yu-Miin Sheu, Hiromichi Ohta
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123 15419  2019年05月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Oxide-based optical, electrical and magnetic properties switching devices with water-incorporated gate insulator
    Takayoshi Katase, Hiromichi Ohta
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 58 090501  2019年04月11日 [査読有り][招待有り]
  • Room-temperature ferroelectric ferromagnet in 1D tetrahedral chain network
    Kyeong Tae Kang, Chang Jae Roh, Jinyoung Lim, Taewon Min, Jun Han Lee, Kyoungjun Lee, Tae Yoon Lee, Seunghun Kang, Daehee Seol, Jiwoong Kim, Hiromichi Ohta, Amit Khare, Sungkyun Park, Yunseok Kim, Seung Chul Chae, Yoon Seok Oh, Jaekwang Lee, Jaejun Yu, Jong Seok Lee, Woo Seok Choi
    Adv. Mater. 31 1808104  2019年04月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Thermal conductivity tensor of NbO2
    Hai Jun Cho, Gowoon Kim, Takaki Onozato, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Hiromichi Ohta
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 137 263  2019年03月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Peculiar magnetotransport properties in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3/LaAlO3/SrTiO3
    Michihiko Yamanouchi, Tatsuro Oyamada, Hiromichi Ohta
    AIP Advances 9 035129  2019年03月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Yamanouchi Michihiko, Oyamada Tatsuro, Ohta Hiromichi
    JSAP Annual Meetings Extended Abstracts 2019.1 1900 - 1900 2019年02月25日
  • Current-induced modulation of coercive field in the ferromagnetic oxide SrRuO3
    Michihiko Yamanouchi, Tatsuro Oyamada, Koichi Sato, Hiromichi Ohta, Jun’ichi Ieda
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 1400604  2019年02月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Fast operation of a WO3-based solid-state electrochromic transistor
    Takaki Onozato, Yukio Nezu, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    AIP Advances 9 025122  2019年02月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Kaito Kanahashi, Naoki Tanaka, Yoshiaki Shoji, Mina Maruyama, Il Jeon, Kenji Kawahara, Masatou Ishihara, Masataka Hasegawa, Hiromichi Ohta, Hiroki Ago, Yutaka Matsuo, Susumu Okada, Takanori Fukushima, Taishi Takenobu
    npj 2D Materials and Applications 3 7  2019年02月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Large-area graphene films have substantial potential for use as next-generation electrodes because of their good chemical stability, high flexibility, excellent carrier mobility, and lightweight structure. However, various issues remain unsolved. In particular, high-density carrier doping within a short time by a simple method, and air stability of doped graphene films, are highly desirable. Here, we demonstrate a solution-based high-density (>10(14) cm(-2) ) hole doping approach that promises to push the performance limit of graphene films. The reaction of graphene films with a tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate salt, containing a two-coordinate boron cation, achieves doping within an extremely short time (4 s), and the doped graphene films are air stable for at least 31 days. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy reveals that the graphene films are covered by the chemically stable anions, resulting in an improved stability in air. Moreover, the doping reduces the transmittance by only 0.44 +/- 0.23%. The simplicity of the doping process offers a viable route to the large-scale production of functional graphene electrodes.
  • Anup Sanchela, Mian Wei, Joonhyuk Lee, Gowoon Kim, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Bin Feng, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    Journal of Materials Chemistry C 7 5797 - 5802 2019年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     

    Hall mobility of La-doped BaSnO3 films was improved without any buffer layers if the films are grown under O3 atmospheres.

  • Thermopower modulation clarification of the operating mechanism in wide bandgap BaSnO3−SrSnO3 solid-solution based thin film transistors
    Anup V. Sanchela, Mian Wei, Hai Jun Cho, Hiromichi Ohta
    Small 15 1805394  2019年01月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Effects of vacuum annealing on the electron mobility of epitaxial La-doped BaSnO3 films
    Hai Jun Cho, Takaki Onozato, Mian Wei, Anup Sanchela, Hiromichi Ohta
    APL Mater. 7 022507  2018年12月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Extremely light carrier effective mass in a distorted simple metal oxide
    Gowoon Kim, Yu-Qiao Zhang, Taewon Min, Hoyoung Suh, Jae Hyuck Jang, Hyeonjun Kong, Joonhyuk Lee, Jaekwang Lee, Tae-Yeol Jeon, Inwon Lee, Jinhyung Cho, Hiromichi Ohta, Hyoungjeen Jeen
    Adv. Electron. Mater. 5 1800504  2018年12月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Oxygen vacancies allow tuning the work function of vanadium dioxide
    Rongbin Wang, Takayoshi Katase, Ke-Ke Fu, Tianshu Zhai, Jiacheng Yang, Qiankun Wang, Hiromichi Ohta, Norbert Koch, Steffen Duhm
    Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2018年10月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • 小山田 達郎, 太田 裕道, 山ノ内 路彦
    応用物理学会学術講演会講演予稿集 2018.2 2021 - 2021 公益社団法人 応用物理学会 2018年09月05日
  • Jason Tam, Bin Feng, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta, Uwe Erb
    J. Mater. Chem. A 6 38 18384 - 18388 2018年09月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    © 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Controlling the wetting property of ceramics, which is characterized by their water contact angles (WCAs), is of great interest because of their better thermal and chemical robustness compared with polymer materials. Among many ceramics, rare earth oxides (REOs) have attracted attention because of their high WCA (∼115°). Although several non-wetting mechanisms of REOs have been proposed thus far, the intrinsic mechanism has not been clarified yet due to the lack of information on crystallographic orientation-surface energy (SE)-WCA relationships. Here we report the WCA of (001), (110), and (111) oriented REO epitaxial films, which have different surface energies. We found that the WCA of fresh REO epitaxial film surfaces, which were prepared using a pulsed laser deposition technique, strongly depends on the crystallographic orientations, WCA(111) > WCA(110) > WCA(001), which reflects the differences in surface energy; SE(111) < SE(110) < SE(001). Moreover, we found that the WCA on REOs increases rapidly and converges to about 80° upon exposure to ambient air, regardless of the crystallographic orientation, likely due to surface adsorption of airborne carbon species. The present finding of 'There is a strong correlation between the crystallographic orientation, wetting property and the surface energy' is of great importance for the understanding of the wetting properties of ceramics.
  • Double thermoelectric power factor of a 2D electron system
    Yuqiao Zhang, Bin Feng, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Cheng-Ping Chang, Yu-Miin Sheu, Isao Tanaka, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    Nature Communications 9 2224  2018年07月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Anup V. Sanchela, Mian Wei, Haruki Zensyo, Bin Feng, Joonhyuk Lee, Gowoon Kim, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    Applied Physics Letters 112 23 232102  2018年06月04日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    In this study, we report that the carrier mobility of 2%-La-doped BaSnO3 (LBSO) films on (001) SrTiO3 and (001) MgO substrates strongly depends on the thickness, whereas it is unrelated to the film/substrate lattice mismatch (+5.4% for SrTiO3 and -2.3% for MgO). The films exhibited large differences in lattice parameters, lateral grain sizes (∼85 nm for SrTiO3 and ∼20 nm for MgO), surface morphologies, threading dislocation densities, and misfit dislocation densities. However, the mobility dependences on the film thickness in both cases were almost the same, saturating at ∼100 cm2 V-1 s-1, while the charge carrier densities approached the nominal carrier concentration (=[2% La3+]). Our study clearly indicates that the carrier mobility of LBSO films strongly depends on the thickness. These results would be beneficial for understanding the carrier transport properties and fruitful to further enhance the mobility of LBSO films.
  • Plasmon-Assisted Polarity Switching of a Photoelectric Conversion Device by UV and Visible Light Irradiation
    Keisuke Nakamura, Tomoya Oshikiri, Kosei Ueno, Takayoshi Katase, Hiromichi Ohta, Hiroaki Misawa
    J. Phys. Chem. C 122 25 14064 - 14071 2018年04月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Keke Fu, Rongbin Wang, Takayoshi Katase, Hiromichi Ohta, Norbert Koch, Steffen Duhm
    ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 10 12 10552 - 10559 2018年03月28日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Using photoemission spectroscopy, we show that the surface electronic structure of VO2 is determined by the temperature-dependent metal-insulator phase transition and the density of oxygen vacancies, which depends on the temperature and ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions. The atomically clean and stoichiometric VO2 surface is insulating at room temperature and features an ultrahigh work function of up to 6.7 eV. Heating in UHV just above the phase transition temperature induces the expected metallic phase, which goes in hand with the formation of oxygen defects (up to 6% in this study), but a high work function > 6 eV is maintained. To demonstrate the suitability of VO2 as hole injection contact for organic semiconductors, we investigated the energy-level alignment with the prototypical organic hole transport material N,N′-di(1-naphthyl)-N,N′-diphenyl-(1,1′-biphenyl)-4,4′-diamine (NPB). Evidence for strong Fermi-level pinning and the associated energy-level bending in NPB is found, rendering an Ohmic contact for holes.
  • Hirofumi Matsuoka, Kaito Kanahashi, Naoki Tanaka, Yoshiaki Shoji, Lain-Jong Li, Jiang Pu, Hiroshi Ito, Hiromichi Ohta, Takanori Fukushima, Taishi Takenobu
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 57 2 02CCB15  2018年02月01日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Hole carrier doping into single-crystalline transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) films can be achieved with various chemical reagents. However, large-area polycrystalline TMDC monolayers produced by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth method have yet to be chemically doped. Here, we report that a salt of a two-coordinate boron cation, Mes2B+ (Mes: 2,4,6-trimethylphenyl group), with a chemically stable tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate anion, [(C6F5)4B]-, can serve as an efficient hole-doping reagent for large-area CVD-grown tungsten diselenide (WSe2) films. Upon doping, the sheet resistance of large-area polycrystalline WSe2 monolayers decreased from 90 GΩ/sq to 3.2 kΩ/sq.
  • Ohta, Hiromichi, Kim, Sung Wng, Kaneki, Shota, Yamamoto, Atsushi, Hashizume, Tamotsu
    Advanced Science 5 1 2018年
  • Amit Khare, Jaekwang Lee, Jaeseoung Park, Gi-Yeop Kim, Si-Young Choi, Takayoshi Katase, Seulki Roh, Tae Sup Yoo, Jungseek Hwang, Hiromichi Ohta, Junwoo Son, Woo Seok Choi
    ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 10 5 4831 - 4837 2018年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Transition-metal oxides (TMOs) with brownmillerite (BM) structures possess one-dimensional oxygen vacancy channels (OVCs), which play a key role in realizing high ionic conduction at low temperatures. The controllability of the vacancy channel orientation, thus, possesses a great potential for practical applications and would provide a better visualization of the diffusion pathways of ions in TMOs. In this study, the orientations of the OVCs in BM-SrFeO2.5 are stabilized along two crystallographic directions of the epitaxial thin films. The distinctively orientated phases are found to be highly stable and exhibit a considerable difference in their electronic structures and optical properties, which could be understood in terms of orbital anisotropy. The control of the OVC orientation further leads to modifications in the hydrogenation of the BM-SrFeO2.5 thin films. The results demonstrate a strong correlation between crystallographic orientations, electronic structures, and ionic motion in the BM structure.
  • High thermoelectric power factor of high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas
    Hiromichi Ohta, Sung Wng Kim, Shota Kaneki, Atsushi Yamamoto, Tamotsu Hashizume
    Adv. Sci. 4 1700696-1 - 1700696-6 2017年11月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Yukio Nezu, Yu-Qiao Zhang, Chunlin Chen, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 122 13 135305  2017年10月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    High-quality epitaxial films of a ferroelectric oxide Sr2Nb2O7 were successfully fabricated by solid phase epitaxy (SPE) on (110) LaAlO3 single crystal substrates. In the SPE method, amorphous Sr-Nb-O films are first deposited by pulsed laser deposition at room temperature and then annealed in vacuum at elevated temperatures, resulting in the crystallization of Sr2Nb2O7 with highly ordered atomic arrangement and an atomically flat surface. The refractive index of the resultant film was 2.1, indicating that the dielectric permittivity of the film was in between 20 and 80, which corresponds well with that of single crystal Sr2Nb2O7, demonstrating the effectiveness of the SPE method for the fabrication of high-quality epitaxial films of Sr2Nb2O7. Published by AIP Publishing.
  • Takayoshi Katase, Yuki Suzuki, Hiromichi Ohta
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 122 13 135303  2017年10月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    The electrochemical switching of SrCoOx-based non-volatile memory with a thin-film-transistor structure was examined by using liquid-leakage-free electrolytes with different conductivities (sigma) as the gate insulator. We first examined leakage-free water, which is incorporated in the amorphous (a-) 12CaO center dot 7Al(2)O(3) film with a nanoporous structure (Calcium Aluminate with Nanopore), but the electrochemical oxidation/reduction of the SrCoOx layer required the application of a high gate voltage (V-g) up to 20V for a very long current-flowing-time (t) similar to 40min, primarily due to the low sigma [2.0 x 10(-8) S cm(-1) at room temperature (RT)] of leakage-free water. We then controlled the r of the leakage-free electrolyte, infiltrated in the alpha-NaxTaO(3) film with a nanopillar array structure, from 8.0 x 10(-8) S cm(-1) to 2.5 x 10(-6) S cm(-1) at RT by changing the x = 0.01-1.0. As the result, the t, required for the metallization of the SrCoOx layer under small Vg = -3V, becomes two orders of magnitude shorter with increase of the r of the a-NaxTaO3 leakage-free electrolyte. These results indicate that the ion migration in the leakage-free electrolyte is the rate-determining step for the electrochemical switching, compared to the other electrochemical process, and the high r of the leakage-free electrolyte is the key factor for the development of the non-volatile SrCoOx-based electro-magnetic phase switching device. Published by AIP Publishing.
  • Jae-Yeol Hwang, Young-Min Kim, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Hiromichi Ohta, Sung Wng Kim
    NANO LETTERS 17 10 6140 - 6145 2017年10月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Demands on high-quality layer structured two-dimen sional (2D) thin films such as pnictogen chalcogenides and transition metal dichalcogenides are growing due to the findings of exotic physical properties and potentials for device applications. However, the difficulties in controlling epitaxial growth and the unclear understanding of van der Waals epitaxy (vdWE) for a 2D chalcogenide film on a three-dimensional (3D) substrate have been major obstacles for the further advances of 2D materials. Here, we exploit the spontaneous vdWE of a high-quality 2D chalcogenide (Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3) film by the chalcogen-driven surface reconstruction of a conventional 3D sapphire substrate. It is verified that the in situ formation of a pseudomorphic Te atomic monolayer on the surface of sapphire, which results in a dangling bond-free surface, allows the spontaneous vdWE of 2D chalcogenide film. Since this route uses the natural surface reconstruction of sapphire with chalcogen under vacuum condition, it can be scalable and easily utilized for the developments of various 2D chalcogenide vdWE films through conventional thin-film fabrication technologies.
  • Amit Khare, Dongwon Shin, Tae Sup Yoo, Minu Kim, Tae Dong Kang, Jaekwang Lee, Seulki Roh, In-Ho Jung, Jungseek Hwang, Sung Wng Kim, Tae Won Noh, Hiromichi Ohta, Woo Seok Choi
    ADVANCED MATERIALS 29 37 1606566  2017年10月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Topotactic phase transformation enables structural transition without losing the crystalline symmetry of the parental phase and provides an effective platform for elucidating the redox reaction and oxygen diffusion within transition metal oxides. In addition, it enables tuning of the emergent physical properties of complex oxides, through strong interaction between the lattice and electronic degrees of freedom. In this communication, the electronic structure evolution of SrFeOx epitaxial thin films is identified in real-time, during the progress of reversible topotactic phase transformation. Using real-time optical spectroscopy, the phase transition between the two structurally distinct phases (i.e., brownmillerite and perovskite) is quantitatively monitored, and a pressure-temperature phase diagram of the topotactic transformation is constructed for the first time. The transformation at relatively low temperatures is attributed to a markedly small difference in Gibbs free energy compared to the known similar class of materials to date. This study highlights the phase stability and reversibility of SrFeOx thin films, which is highly relevant for energy and environmental applications exploiting the redox reactions.
  • Shao-Pin Chiu, Michihiko Yamanouchi, Tatsuro Oyamada, Hiromichi Ohta, Juhn-Jong Lin
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B 96 8 085143  2017年08月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Epitaxial La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) films have been grown on SrTiO3 (001) substrates via pulsed laser deposition. In a 22-nm-thick LSMO film with a low residual resistivity of rho(0) approximate to 59 mu Omega cm, we found a zero-field dip in the magnetoresistance (MR) below 10 K, manifesting the weak antilocalization (WAL) effect due to strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We have analyzed the MR data by including the D'yakonov-Perel' spin-relaxation mechanism in the WAL theory. We explain that the delocalized spin-down electron sub-band states play a crucial role for facilitating marked SOC in clean LSMO. Moreover, we find that the SOC strength and gate voltage tunability are similar to those in a two-dimensional electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface, indicating the presence of an internal electric field near the LSMO/SrTiO3 interface. In a control measurement on a 5-nm-thick high resistivity (rho(0) approximate to 280 mu Omega cm) LSMO film, we observe only a small zero-field peak in MR from weak localization effect, indicating negligible SOC.
  • Anup V. Sanchela, Takaki Onozato, Bin Feng, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS 1 3 034603  2017年08月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    The exact intrinsic carrier effective mass m* of a well-studied transparent oxide semiconductor BaSnO3 is unknown because the reported m* values are scattered from 0.06m(0) to 3.7m(0). This paper identifies the intrinsic m* of BaSnO3, m* = 0.40 +/- 0.01m(0), by the thermopower modulation clarification method and determines the threshold of the degenerate/nondegenerate semiconductor. At the threshold, the thermopower values of both the La-doped BaSnO3 and BaSnO3 thin-film transistor structures are 240 mu V K-1, the bulk carrier concentration is 1.4 x 10(19) cm(-3), and the two-dimensional sheet carrier concentration is 1.8 x 10(12) cm(-2). When the Fermi energy E-F is located above the parabolic shaped conduction band bottom, the mobility is rather high. In contrast, E-F below the threshold exhibits a very low carrier mobility, most likely because the tail states suppress the carrier mobility. The present results are useful to further develop BaSnO3-based oxide electronics.
  • Yuqiao Zhang, Bin Feng, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Tetsuya Tohei, Isao Tanaka, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 121 18 185102-1 - 185102-7 2017年05月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Here, we present a thermoelectric phase diagram for the SrTi1-xNbxO3 (0.05 <= x <= 1) solid solution system, which we derived from the characterization of epitaxial films. We observed two thermoelectric phase boundaries in the system, which originate from the step-like decrease in carrier effective mass at x similar to 0.3 and from a local minimum in carrier relaxation time at x similar to 0.5. The origins of these phase boundaries are considered to be related to isovalent/heterovalent B-site substitution: parabolic Ti 3d orbitals dominate electron conduction for compositions with x < 0.3, whereas the Nb 4 d orbital dominates when x > 0.3. At x similar to 0.5, a tetragonal distortion of the lattice, in which the B-site is composed of Ti4+ and Nb4+ ions, leads to the formation of tail-like impurity bands, which maximizes the electron scattering. These results provide a foundation for further research into improving the thermoelectric performance of SrTi1-xNbxO3. Published by AIP Publishing.
  • Takayoshi Katase, Kenji Endo, Hiromichi Ohta
    APL MATERIALS 5 5 056105  2017年05月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Infrared (IR) transmittance tunable metal-insulator conversion was demonstrated on a glass substrate by using thermochromic vanadium dioxide (VO2) as the active layer in a three-terminal thin-film-transistor-type device withwater-infiltrated glass as the gate insulator. Alternative positive/negative gate-voltage applications induce the reversible protonation/deprotonation of a VO2 channel, and two-orders of magnitude modulation of sheet-resistance and 49% modulation of IR-transmittance were simultaneously demonstrated at room temperature by the metal-insulator phase conversion of VO2 in a non-volatile manner. The present device is operable by the room-temperature protonation in an all-solid-state structure, and thus it will provide a new gateway to future energy-saving technology as an advanced smart window. (C) 2017 Author(s).
  • Shota Katayama, Takayoshi Katase, Tetsuya Tohei, Bin Feng, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 17 4 1849 - 1853 2017年04月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Layered alkali ion-containing metal oxides (LAMOs) are promising as candidate material for energy storage and conversion applications. Although high-quality epitaxial films are useful to clarify their physical properties, it is very difficult to fabricate LAMO films by a conventional vapor phase epitaxy method because of the high vapor pressure of alkali metals at elevated temperatures. Here we report reactive solid-phase epitaxy (R-SPE) [Cryst. Growth Des. 2005,S, 25] of layered sodium manganese oxide, which is a candidate as cathode active material for Na-ion batteries. In the R-SPE method, manganese oxide epitaxial film with spinel structure was first grown on sapphire substrate, and then the film was changed into Na approximate to 2/3MnO2 epitaxial film by heating the film at 700 degrees C with Na2CO3 powder. Hydrated Na approximate to 0.61MnO2 center dot approximate to 0.42H(2)O film was also prepared by immersing a Na,approximate to 2/3MnO2 film into water at room temperature. The electron hopping conductivity of Na approximate to 2/3MnO2 and Na approximate to 0.61MnO2 approximate to 0.42H2O films was clarified as similar to 1 and similar to 0.1 mS cm(-1) at room temperature, respectively, with an activation energy of 0.47 eV, demonstrating the usefulness of our R-SPE method for clarifying the physical properties of LAMO.
  • 小山田 達郎, 片瀬 貴義, 太田 裕道, 山ノ内 路彦
    応用物理学会学術講演会講演予稿集 2017.1 2047 - 2047 公益社団法人 応用物理学会 2017年03月01日
  • Kazuma Funahashi, Naoki Tanaka, Yoshiaki Shoji, Naoki Imazu, Ko Nakayama, Kaito Kanahashi, Hiroyuki Shirae, Suguru Noda, Hiromichi Ohta, Takanori Fukushima, Taishi Takenobu
    APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESS 10 3 2017年03月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Hole doping into carbon nanotubes can be achieved. However, the doped nanotubes usually suffer from the lack of air and moisture stability, thus, they eventually lose their improved electrical properties. Here, we report that a salt of the two-coordinate boron cation Mes(2)B(+) (Mes: 2,4,6-trimethylphenyl group) can serve as an efficient hole-doping reagent to produce nanotubes with markedly high stability in the presence of air and moisture. Upon doping, the resistances of the nanotubes decreased, and these states were maintained for one month in air. The hole-doped nanotube films showed a minimal increase in resistance even upon humidification with a relative humidity of 90%. (C) 2017 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
  • Eun Sung Kim, Jae-Yeol Hwang, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Hiromichi Ohta, Young Hee Lee, Sung Wng Kim
    ADVANCED MATERIALS 29 8 1604899  2017年02月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Ning Li, Takayoshi Katase, Yanbei Zhu, Takao Matsumoto, Tomonari Umemura, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESS 9 12 125501  2016年12月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    A thin film of Li4Ti5O12, a candidate anode material for solid-state Li-ion batteries, was heteroepitaxially grown on a (001) SrTiO3 substrate using solid-liquid phase epitaxy. An amorphous Li4Ti5O12 film deposited at room temperature was first heated with LiNO3 powder in air and then washed with distilled water. The Li4Ti5O12 epitaxial film was obtained by heating with molten LiNO3 at 600 degrees C; the liquid LiNO3 completely covered the film, suppressing the formation of Li deficiencies and enhancing the low-temperature crystal growth. Solid-liquid phase epitaxy is a powerful approach to grow Li-containing-oxide films, which are difficult to fabricate because of the loss of Li species at high temperature. (C) 2016 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
  • 山ノ内 路彦, 小山田 達郎, 片瀬 貴義, 太田 裕道
    応用物理学会学術講演会講演予稿集 2016.2 1933 - 1933 公益社団法人 応用物理学会 2016年09月01日
  • Jiang Pu, Kaito Kanahashi, Nguyen Thanh Cuong, Chang-Hsiao Chen, Lain-Jong Li, Susumu Okada, Hiromichi Ohta, Taishi Takenobu
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B 94 1 014312  2016年07月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    The carrier-density-dependent conductance and thermoelectric properties of large-area MoS2 and WSe2 monolayers are simultaneously investigated using the electrolyte gating method. The sign of the thermoelectric power changes across the transistor off-state in the ambipolar WSe2 transistor as the majority carrier density switches from electron to hole. The thermopower and thermoelectric power factor of monolayer samples are one order of magnitude larger than that of bulk materials, and their carrier-density dependences exhibit a quantitative agreement with the semiclassical Mott relation based on the two-dimensional energy band structure, concluding the thermoelectric properties are enhanced by the low-dimensional effect.
  • Takaki Onozato, Takayoshi Katase, Akira Yamamoto, Shota Katayama, Koichi Matsushima, Naho Itagaki, Hisao Yoshida, Hiromichi Ohta
    JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER 28 25 25501  2016年06月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    In order to understand the optoelectronic properties of amorphous niobium oxide (a-NbOx), we have investigated the valence states, local structures, electrical resistivity, and optical absorption of a-NbOx thin films with various oxygen contents. It was found that the valence states of Nb ion in a-NbOx films can be controlled from 5+ to 4+ by reducing oxygen pressure during film deposition at room temperature, together with changing the oxide-ion arrangement around Nb ion from Nb2O5-like to NbO2-like local structure. As a result, a four orders of magnitude reduction in the electrical resistivity of a-NbOx films was observed with decreasing oxygen content, due to the carrier generation caused by the appearance and increase of an oxygen-vacancy-related subgap state working as an electron donor. The tunable optoelectronic properties of a-NbOx films by valence-state-control with oxygen-vacancy formation will be useful for potential flexible optoelectronic device applications.
  • Takayoshi Katase, Yuki Suzuki, Hiromichi Ohta
    ADVANCED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS 2 6 2016年06月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    A reversibly switchable electromagnetic oxide device is demonstrated by using a thin-film transistor structure with a newly developed leakage-free electrolyte as a gate insulator. The electrical and magnetic behavior of the device can be switched from antiferromagnetic insulation to ferromagnetic metal electrically under DC voltage of +3 V at room temperature. The result provides a novel design concept for practical memory devices.
  • Takayoshi Katase, Takaki Onozato, Misako Hirono, Taku Mizuno, Hiromichi Ohta
    SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 6 25819  2016年05月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Proton and hydroxyl ion play an essential role for tuning functionality of oxides because their electronic state can be controlled by modifying oxygen off-stoichiometry and/or protonation. Tungsten trioxide (WO3), a well-known electrochromic (EC) material for smart window, is a wide bandgap insulator, whereas it becomes a metallic conductor HxWO3 by protonation. Although one can utilize electrochromism together with metal-insulator (MI) switching for one device, such EC-MI switching cannot be utilized in current EC devices because of their two-terminal structure with parallel-plate configuration. Here we demonstrate a transparent EC-MI switchable device with three-terminal TFT-type structure using amorphous (a-) WO3 channel layer, which was fabricated on glass substrate at room temperature. We used water-infiltrated nano-porous glass, CAN (calcium aluminate with nanopores), as a liquid-leakage-free solid gate insulator. At virgin state, the device was fully transparent in the visible-light region. For positive gate voltage, the active channel became dark blue, and electrical resistivity of the a-WO3 layer drastically decreased with protonation. For negative gate voltage, deprotonation occurred and the active channel returned to transparent insulator. Good cycleability of the present transparent EC-MI switching device would have potential for the development of advanced smart windows.
  • Bin Feng, Issei Sugiyama, Hajime Hojo, Hiromichi Ohta, Naoya Shibata, Yuichi Ikuhara
    SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 6 20288  2016年02月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Material performance is significantly governed by grain boundaries (GBs), a typical crystal defects inside, which often exhibit unique properties due to the structural and chemical inhomogeneity. Here, it is reported direct atomic scale evidence that oxygen vacancies formed in the GBs can modify the local surface oxygen dynamics in CeO2, a key material for fuel cells. The atomic structures and oxygen vacancy concentrations in individual GBs are obtained by electron microscopy and theoretical calculations at atomic scale. Meanwhile, local GB oxygen reduction reactivity is measured by electrochemical strain microscopy. By combining these techniques, it is demonstrated that the GB electrochemical activities are affected by the oxygen vacancy concentrations, which is, on the other hand, determined by the local structural distortions at the GB core region. These results provide critical understanding of GB properties down to atomic scale, and new perspectives on the development strategies of high performance electrochemical devices for solid oxide fuel cells.
  • Koji Yokoyama, Shun Yokoyama, Yoshinori Sato, Kazutaka Hirano, Shinji Hashiguchi, Kenichi Motomiya, Hiromichi Ohta, Hideyuki Takahashi, Kazuyuki Tohji, Yoshinori Sato
    JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A 4 23 9184 - 9195 2016年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Nitrogen-doped carbon nanomaterials are known to be excellent electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in polymer electrolyte fuel cells. In this study, we used a new and simple post-doping synthesis method to prepare nitrogen-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) by reacting fluorinated SWCNTs with ammonia gas at 300-600 degrees C. The structure and morphology of the N-x degrees C-doped SWCNTs (x: reaction temperature) synthesized by the defluorination-assisted nanotube-substitution reaction were characterized. Their levels of nitrogen doping (1.38-3.04 at%) are fairly high, with enriched pyridinic- and pyrrolic-nitrogen species. Their electrochemical catalytic activity for ORR in 0.5 M H2SO4 was evaluated by cyclic voltammetry and linear sweep voltammetry, and their catalytic durability was assessed in load-potential cycle tests. For the N-x degrees C-doped SWCNTs, the peak and the onset potential (E-peak and E-onset, respectively) shifted towards the positive and the current density (j@E-1/2) at the half-wave potential (E-1/2) increased with increasing reaction temperature. The Eonset values of N-500 degrees C- and N-600 degrees C-doped SWCNTs were +0.51 V while that of the non-fluorinated hc-SWCNTs was +0.16 V. The number of electrons transferred per oxygen molecule (n) in ORR was determined to be 2.32-3.64 at the potential of -0.3 V. The ORR catalytic activity was evaluated comprehensively through the measured parameters E-peak, E-onset, n, and j@E-1/2. The N-500 degrees C-doped SWCNTs possessed the highest ORR catalytic activity. After 11 000 cycles in the load-potential test, its current density remained at 93% of the initial value, indicating better durability than platinum nanoparticles supported on carbon black (Pt-C).
  • Ichiro Terasaki, Ryuji Okazaki, Hiromichi Ohta
    SCRIPTA MATERIALIA 111 23 - 28 2016年01月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Since thermoelectrics is an energy-conversion technology from heat flow to electrical flow, or vice versa, it is essentially a non-equilibrium phenomenon in the sense that energy and particle flows are involved. We have recently focused on this feature in order to overcome theoretical predictions of the upper limit of the conversion efficiency in thermal equilibrium conditions. One trial is the thermoelectric phenomena in the range of non-ohmic conduction. The second approach is the thermoelectric phenomena shown by the photo-doped carriers. (c) 2015 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
  • Takayoshi Katase, Hidefumi Takahashi, Tetsuya Tohei, Yuki Suzuki, Michihiko Yamanouchi, Yuichi Ikuhara, Ichiro Terasaki, Hiromichi Ohta
    ADVANCED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS 1 12 1500199  2015年12月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    The oxygen-deficient Sr4-xErxCo4O12-delta (SECO), one of the ordered perovskite oxides, is a room-temperature (RT) ferrimagnetic semiconductor that arises from the A-site-ordered structure. Development of such a material can lead to the realization of spintronic heterojunction devices; however, to this point there have been difficulties in achieving the A-site-ordered structure in SECO thin films. Here, single-crystalline film growth of SECO with perfectly aligned A-site-ordered structure on (LaAlO3)(0.3)(Sr2TaAlO6)(0.7) substrates by solid-phase epitaxy (SPE) method is demonstrated. The brownmillerite-type, A-site-disordered structure of the as-grown epitaxial film clearly changes into well-aligned A-site-ordered structure after heat treatment at 1050 degrees C in air; the aligned ordered structure in the film is clearly visualized at atomic level. This ordering induces ferrimagnetism with Curie temperature (T-c) approximate to 310 K and it is found that the SECO film with p-type semiconductivity exhibits anomalous Hall effect at the temperature up to 300 K, which is suitable for the test bench to demonstrate advanced spintronic heterojunction devices, operating at RT. The present SPE method is expected to serve as a powerful technique for the fabrication of thin films and exploration of potential characteristics of A-site-ordered perovskite oxides.
  • Koji Yokoyama, Yoshinori Sato, Kazutaka Hirano, Hiromichi Ohta, Kenichi Motomiya, Kazuyuki Tohji, Yoshinori Sato
    CARBON 94 1052 - 1060 2015年11月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Nitrogen-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes (N-doped SWCNTs) were synthesized by reacting fluorinated SWCNTs with ammonia gas at reaction temperatures of 300-600 degrees C. In the N-doped SWCNTs synthesized at 400 degrees C (N-400 degrees C-doped SWCNTs), nitrogen atoms were introduced into the nanotube framework at a concentration of 3.04 at.%, the concentrations of the pyridinic-, pyrrolic-, graphitic-, and pyridine-N-oxide-type nitrogen species were 1.22, 1.36, 0.34, and 0.08 at.%, respectively, and their percentages with respect to the total nitrogen species were 40.1, 44.7, 11.2, and 2.6%, respectively. The volume resistivity of films of the N-400 degrees C-doped SWCNTs was 2.3 +/- 1.1 Omega.cm, indicating that they can be classified as semiconductors. Finally, it was found that the thermo power of the N-400 degrees C-doped SWCNTs was negative at room temperature in air, indicating that they exhibited n-type conduction. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
  • Takayoshi Katase, Kenji Endo, Hiromichi Ohta
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B 92 3 035302  2015年07月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Insulator-to-metal (MI) phase transition in vanadium dioxide (VO2) thin films with controlled lattice distortion was investigated by thermopower measurements. VO2 epitaxial films with different crystallographic orientations, grown on (0001) alpha-Al2O3, (11 (2) over bar0) alpha-Al2O3, and (001) TiO2 substrates, showed significant decrease of absolute value of Seebeck coefficient (S) from similar to 200 to 23 mu VK-1, along with a sharp drop in electrical resistivity (rho), due to the transition from an insulator to a metal. The MI transition temperatures observed both in rho(T-rho) and S(T-S) for the VO2 films systematically decrease with lattice shrinkage in the pseudorutile structure along the c axis, accompanying a broadening of the MI transition temperature width. Moreover, the onset T-S, where the insulating phase starts to become metallic, is much lower than the onset T-rho. This difference is attributed to the sensitivity of S for the detection of hidden metallic domains in the majority insulating phase, which cannot be detected in rho measurements. Consequently, S measurements provide a straightforward and excellent approach for a deeper understanding of the MI transition process in VO2.
  • Takayoshi Katase, Kenji Endo, Tetsuya Tohei, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    ADVANCED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS 1 7 1500063  2015年07月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Room-temperature protonation and metal-insulator conversion of a transition metal oxide (TMO) is demonstrated by all-solid-state thin-film transistor with vanadium dioxide using a water-infiltrated nanoporous glass as a solid electrolyte. This promising result can provide a novel route for TMO-based solid-state electro-optical devices, in particular, smart windows for on-demand infrared shielding.
  • Takayoshi Katase, Kenji Endo, Hiromichi Ohta
    JOURNAL OF THE CERAMIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN 123 1437 307 - 311 2015年05月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Electronic structure across the metal-insulator (MI) transition of electron-doped V1-x WxO2 epitaxial films (x = 0-0.06) grown on alpha-Al2O3 substrates was studied by means of thermopower (S) measurements. Significant increase of vertical bar S vertical bar-values accompanied by MI transition was observed, and the transition temperatures of S (T-S) decreased with x in good linear relation with MI transition temperatures. vertical bar S vertical bar values of V1-x WxO2 films at T > T-S were constant at low values of 23 mu VK-1 independently of x, which reflects a metallic electronic structure, whereas, those at T < T-S almost linearly decreased with logarithmic W-concentrations. The gradient of -213 mu VK-1 agrees well with -k(B)/e.ln10 (-198 mu VK-1), suggesting that V1-x WxO2 films have insulating electronic structures with a parabolic density of state around the conduction band bottom. (C) 2015 The Ceramic Society of Japan. All rights reserved.
  • Woo Seok Choi, Hyang Keun Yoo, Hiromichi Ohta
    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 25 5 799 - 804 2015年02月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    The electrodynamic properties of La-doped SrTiO3 thin films with controlled elemental vacancies are investigated using optical spectroscopy and thermopower measurement. In particular, a correlation between the polaron formation and thermoelectric properties of the transition metal oxide (TMO) thin films is observed. With decreasing oxygen partial pressure during the film growth (P(O-2)), a systematic lattice expansion is observed along with the increased elemental vacancy and carrier density, experimentally determined using optical spectroscopy. Moreover, an absorption in the mid-infrared photon energy range is found, which is attributed to the polaron formation in the doped SrTiO3 system. Thermopower of the La-doped SrTiO3 thin films can be largely modulated from -120 to -260 V K-1, reflecting an enhanced polaronic mass of approximate to 3 < m(polron)/m < approximate to 4. The elemental vacancies generated in the TMO films grown at various P(O-2) influences the global polaronic transport, which governs the charge transport behavior, including the thermoelectric properties.
  • Woo Seok Choi, Hiromichi Ohta, Ho Nyung Lee
    ADVANCED MATERIALS 26 39 6701 - 6705 2014年10月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Takayoshi Katase, Kenji Endo, Hiromichi Ohta
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B 90 16 161105(R)  2014年10月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    The electronic structure across the metal-insulator (MI) transition of electron-doped V1-xWxO2 epitaxial films (x = 0-0.06) grown on alpha-Al2O3 substrates was studied by means of thermopower (S) measurements. Significant increase of vertical bar S vertical bar values accompanied by MI transition was observed, and the transition temperatures of S (T-S) decreased with x in a good linear relation with MI transition temperatures. vertical bar S vertical bar values of V1-xWxO2 films at T > T-S were constant at low values of 23 mu VK-1 independently of x, which reflects a metallic electronic structure, whereas those at T < T-S almost linearly decreased with logarithmic W concentrations. The gradient of -213 mu VK-1 agrees well with -k(B)/e ln10 (-198 mu VK-1), suggesting that V1-xWxO2 films have insulating electronic structures with a parabolic density of state around the conduction band bottom.
  • Hyoungjeen Jeen, Woo Seok Choi, Michael D. Biegalski, Chad M. Folkman, I-Cheng Tung, Dillon D. Fong, John W. Freeland, Dongwon Shin, Hiromichi Ohta, Matthew F. Chisholm, Ho Nyung Lee
    NATURE MATERIALS 12 11 1057 - 1063 2013年11月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Fast, reversible redox reactions in solids at low temperatures without thermomechanical degradation are a promising strategy for enhancing the overall performance and lifetime of many energy materials and devices. However, the robust nature of the cation's oxidation state and the high thermodynamic barrier have hindered the realization of fast catalysis and bulk diffusion at low temperatures. Here, we report a significant lowering of the redox temperature by epitaxial stabilization of strontium cobaltites (SrCoOx) grown directly as one of two distinct crystalline phases, either the perovskite SrCoO3-delta or the brownmillerite SrCoO2.5. Importantly, these two phases can be reversibly switched at a remarkably reduced temperature (200-300 degrees C) in a considerably short time (<1 min) without destroying the parent framework. The fast, low-temperature redox activity in SrCoO3-delta is attributed to a small Gibbs free-energy difference between two topotatic phases. Our findings thus provide useful information for developing highly sensitive electrochemical sensors and low-temperature cathode materials.
  • H. Jeen, W. S. Choi, J. W. Freeland, H. Ohta, C. U. Jung, H. N. Lee
    Adv. Mater. 25 27 3651 - 3656 2013年07月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Noriyuki Aoki, Takashi Yamamoto, Akhmad Sabarudin, Tomonari Umemura
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 102 8 2013年02月 [査読有り][通常論文]
  • Shijian Zheng, Craig A. J. Fisher, Takeharu Kato, Yuki Nagao, Hiromichi Ohta, Yuichi Ikuhara
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 101 19 191602  2012年11月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Using advanced Cs-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy, we have observed the atomic structures of coherent TiO2/LaAlO3 heterointerfaces in anatase TiO2 thin films deposited on single-crystal LaAlO3. Two epitaxial relationships are identified: (001)[100] TiO2//(001)[100] LaAlO3 and (001)[010] TiO2//(001)[100] LaAlO3. These epitaxial relationships and the terrace steps on the substrate surface result in the formation of multidomains in the anatase TiO2 thin films. Three types of domain boundaries are identified, namely, 90 degrees rotation domain boundaries, translation domain boundaries, and mixtures of the two. These domain boundaries are expected to have a profound effect on the properties of the thin film. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx. doi. org/10.1063/1.4766338]
  • H. Ohta, T. Mizoguchi, N. Aoki, T. Yamamoto, A. Sabarudin, T. Umemura
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 100 17 173107  2012年04月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    La2/3-xLi3xTiO3 (LLT, x - 0.1 and 0.167) thin films were grown on (001)-oriented SrTiO3 (STO) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The resultant LLT films were heteroepitaxially grown with atomically flat surfaces. Although the films considered to be single crystalline, they were composed of 90 degrees-rotated multi domains (similar to 5 nm in size) with epitaxial relationships of (100) [001] LLT parallel to (001) [100] STO and (100) [010] LLT parallel to (001) [100] STO. The bulk conductivity of the LLT (x - 0.1) films was 2.5 x 10(-2) S cm(-1) at 190 degrees C, comparable to that of a bulk single crystalline LLT. Single crystalline LLT thin films with atomically flat surfaces should help clarify interfacial lithium-ion conductivity. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4709402]
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Taku Mizuno, Shijian Zheng, Takeharu Kato, Yuichi Ikuhara, Katsumi Abe, Hideya Kumomi, Kenji Nomura, Hideo Hosono
    ADVANCED MATERIALS 24 6 740 - + 2012年02月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Unusually large thermopower modulation is demonstrated using a field effect transistor structure on a thermoelectric material. An electric field application provides an extremely thin (similar to 2 nm) two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), which exhibits unusually large thermopower, approximately five times larger than that of the bulk. The present electric field induced 2DEG approach may accelerate the development of nanostructures for high performance thermoelectric materials.
  • B. Feng, H. Hojo, T. Mizoguchi, H. Ohta, S. D. Findlay, Y. Sato, N. Shibata, T. Yamamoto, Y. Ikuhara
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 100 7 073109  2012年02月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    The atomic structure of a Sigma 3 [110]/(111) grain boundary in CeO2 was studied by scanning transmission electron microscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy, and the first-principles calculations. It was revealed that this grain boundary does not promote the formation of oxygen vacancies and keeps oxygen stoichiometry, which is different from that of Sigma 5 CeO2 grain boundary studied previously [H. Hojo, T. Mizoguchi, H. Ohta, S. D. Findlay, N. Shibata, T. Yamamoto, and Y. Ikuhara, Nano Lett. 10, 4668 (2010)]. It was found that the difference in grain boundary oxygen stoichiometry is correlated with the grain boundary atomic structure. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3682310]
  • Munetoshi Seki, Hitoshi Tabata, Hiromichi Ohta, Katsuhiko Inaba, Shintaro Kobayashi
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 99 24 242504  2011年12月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Epitaxial thin films of Ge-substituted Fe3O4 were grown on alpha-Al2O3 (001) using pulsed laser deposition, and their electrical and magnetic properties were investigated. A target with excess Ge compositions was employed for the film growth to compensate for the volatilization of germanium oxides during the high-temperature deposition. P-type conduction was achieved for the Ge-rich films. The Neel temperature of all the films was above 300 K. Furthermore, the films exhibited an anomalouos Hall effect at 300 K, suggesting that the carriers in the films are spin-polarized. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3670045]
  • Taku Mizuno, Yuki Nagao, Akira Yoshikawa, Kunihito Koumoto, Takeharu Kato, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110 6 063719  2011年09月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Electric field modulation analysis of thermopower (S)-carrier concentration (n) relation of a bilayer laminate structure composed of a 1.5-nm-thick conducting layer, probably TinO2n-1 (n=2, 3, ...) Magneli phase, and rutile TiO2, was performed. The results clearly showed that both the rutile TiO2 and the thin interfacial layer contribute to carrier transport: the rutile TiO2 bulk region (mobility mu similar to 0.03 cm(2) V-1 s(-1)) and the 1.5-nm-thick interfacial layer (mu similar to 0.3 cm(2) V-1 s(-1)). The effective thickness of the interfacial layer, which was obtained from the S-n relation, was below similar to 3 nm, which agrees well with that of the TEM observation (similar to 1.5 nm), clearly showing that electric field modulation measurement of S-n relation can effectively clarify the carrier transport properties of a bilayer laminate structure. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3633217]
  • Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Hiromichi Ohta, Hak-Sung Lee, Nobuaki Takahashi, Yuichi Ikuhara
    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 21 12 2258 - 2263 2011年06月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    By combining state-of-the-art microscopy, spectrosccopy, and first-principles calculations, atomic-scale intermixing behavior at heterointerfaces in SrTiO3-based superlattices is investigated. It is found that Nb is confined to a unit-cell thickness without intermixing, whereas Ba diffuses only to the adjoining Nb-doped SrTiO3 layer. It is revealed that the intermixing behaviors at the heterointerfaces are determined by not only the migration energy, but also by the vacancy-formation energy and the Fermi energy of each layer. Based on these results, we find a method to control the atomic-scale intermixing at the nonpolar heterointerfaces and clearly demonstrate the property improvements obtained by constructing an abrupt heterointerface.
  • Hajime Hojo, Eita Tochigi, Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Hiromichi Ohta, Naoya Shibata, Bin Feng, Yuichi Ikuhara
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 98 15 153104  2011年04月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Threading dislocations in CeO2 thin films grown on yttria-stabilized ZrO2 substrates were investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high-resolution TEM, and scanning TEM. It is revealed that there are two kinds of threading dislocations with the Burgers vector of b = 1/2 < 110 >: one is pure edge-type and the other is mixed-type. Comparing the strain field of the mixed-type dislocations with that of the Peierls-Nabarro and the Foreman dislocation models, we find that the Foreman model better describes it in CeO2. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3575566]
  • Hajime Hojo, Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Hiromichi Ohta, Scott D. Findlay, Naoya Shibata, Takahisa Yamamoto, Yuichi Ikuhara
    Nano Letters 10 11 4668 - 4672 2010年11月10日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Determining both cation and oxygen sublattices of grain boundaries is essential to understand the properties of oxides. Here, with scanning transmission electron microscopy, electron energy-loss spectroscopy, and first-principles calculations, both the Ce and oxygen sublattices of a (210)Σ5 CeO2 grain boundary were determined. Oxygen vacancies are shown to play a crucial role in the stable grain boundary structure. This finding paves the way for a comprehensive understanding of grain boundaries through the atomic scale determination of atom and defect locations. © 2010 American Chemical Society.
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Yukio Sato, Takeharu Kato, SungWng Kim, Kenji Nomura, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hideo Hosono
    NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 1 118  2010年11月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Water is composed of two strong electrochemically active agents, H+ and OH- ions, but has not been used as an active electronic material in oxide semiconductors. In this study, we demonstrate that water-infiltrated nanoporous glass electrically switches an oxide semiconductor from insulator to metal. We fabricated a field-effect transistor structure on an oxide semiconductor, SrTiO3, using water-infiltrated nanoporous glass-amorphous 12CaO center dot 7Al(2)O(3)-as the gate insulator. Positive gate voltage, electron accumulation, water electrolysis and electrochemical reduction occur successively on the SrTiO3 surface at room temperature. This leads to the formation of a thin (similar to 3 nm) metal layer with an extremely high electron concentration (10(15)-10(16) cm(-2)), which exhibits exotic thermoelectric behaviour. The electron activity of water as it infiltrates nanoporous glass may find many useful applications in electronics or in energy storage.
  • Hirotaka Koide, Yuki Nagao, Kunihito Koumoto, Yuka Takasaki, Tomonari Umemura, Takeharu Kato, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 97 18 182105  2010年11月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    To clarify the electronic density of states (DOS) around the conduction band bottom for state of the art transparent amorphous oxide semiconductors (TAOSs), InGaZnO4 and In2MgO4, we fabricated TAOS-based transparent thin film transistors (TTFTs) and measured their gate voltage dependence of thermopower (S). TAOS-based TTFTs exhibit an unusual S behavior. The vertical bar S vertical bar-value abruptly increases but then gradually decreases as V-g increases, clearly suggesting the antiparabolic shaped DOS is hybridized with the original parabolic shaped DOS around the conduction band bottom. (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3512870]
  • Y. Kozuka, M. Kim, H. Ohta, Y. Hikita, C. Bell, H. Y. Hwang
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 97 22 222115  2010年11月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    We fabricated high-mobility delta-doped structures in SrTiO3 thin films in order to investigate the low temperature electronic transport properties of confined carriers in this system. An enhancement of the electron mobility above the bulk value was observed as the doped layer thickness decreased. High-field Hall measurements revealed that this mobility enhancement originates from higher-mobility electrons in the undoped clean regions, which have quantum-mechanically broadened from the doped layer. Because of the absence of apparent lattice misfit between the layers, this structure is highly suitable for investigating two-dimensional electron gases in SrTiO3. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3524198]
  • Yuki Nagao, Akira Yoshikawa, Kunihito Koumoto, Takeharu Kato, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 97 17 172112  2010年10月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Thermopower (S) for anatase TiO2 epitaxial films (n(3D): 10(17)-10(21) cm(-3)) and the gate voltage (V-g) dependence of S for thin film transistors (TFTs) based on TiO2 films were investigated to clarify the electronic density of states around the conduction band bottom. The slope of the vertical bar S vertical bar-log n(3D) plots was -20 mu V K-1, which is an order magnitude smaller than that of semiconductors (-198 mu V K-1), and the vertical bar S vertical bar values for the TFTs increased with V-g in the low V-g region, suggesting that the extra tail states are hybridized with the original conduction band bottom. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3507898]
  • Y. Ishida, A. Mizutani, K. Sugiura, H. Ohta, K. Koumoto
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B 82 7 075325  2010年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We investigate the transport properties of LixCoO2 thin films whose resistivities are nearly an order of magnitude lower than those of the bulk polycrystals. A metal-nonmetal transition occurs at x similar to 0.8 in a biphasic domain and the Seebeck coefficient (S) is drastically increased at similar to 140 K(=T*) with increasing the Li concentration to show a peak of magnitude similar to 120 mu V/K in the S-T curve of x= 0.87. We show that T* corresponds to a crossover temperature in the conduction, most likely reflecting the correlation-induced temperature dependence in the low-energy excitations.
  • Woo Seok Choi, Hiromichi Ohta, Soon Jae Moon, Yun Sang Lee, Tae Won Noh
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B 82 2 024301  2010年07月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Using optical spectroscopy, we investigated the electrodynamic properties of Nb:SrTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices. In these superlattices, a large enhancement of the Seebeck coefficient (S) has been reported with decreasing Nb:SrTiO3 layer thickness [H. Ohta et al., Nature Mater. 6, 129 (2007)]. By analyzing the optical spectra, we found that the polaron plays an important role in determining the electrodynamic properties of the superlattices. With decreasing Nb: SrTiO3 layer thickness from 11 to 1 unit cell, we observed a threefold enhancement of the polaron effective mass and relaxation time. Such increases were attributed to a dimensional crossover of the polaron from three-dimensional to quasi-two-dimensional. Moreover, the modified nature of the polaron at low dimensions enhanced the thermoelectric properties of the oxide superlattice, by simultaneously increasing S and preventing the decrease in carrier mobility. Our results indicate that strong electron-phonon coupling can provide an alternative pathway in searching for efficient thermoelectric materials.
  • Kosuke Uchida, Akira Yoshikawa, Kunihito Koumoto, Takeharu Kato, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 107 9 096103  2010年05月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We report herein fabrication and characterization of a thin film transistor (TFT) using single crystalline strontium titanate (SrTiO3) film, which was grown by a pulsed laser deposition technique followed by the thermal annealing treatment in an oxygen atmosphere. Although TFTs on the as-deposited SrTiO3 films (polycrystalline epitaxial films) exhibited poor transistor characteristics, the annealed single crystalline SrTiO3 TFT exhibits transistor characteristics comparable with those of bulk single crystal SrTiO3 field-effect transistor: an on/off current ratio >10(5), subthreshold swing similar to 2.1 V decade(-1), and field-effect mobility similar to 0.8 cm(2) V-1 s(-1). This demonstrates the effectiveness of the appropriate thermal annealing treatment of epitaxial SrTiO3 films. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3407568]
  • Yifeng Wang, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Hideki Hyuga, Hideki Kita, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    JOURNAL OF ELECTROCERAMICS 24 2 76 - 82 2010年04月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Aiming at the realization of the enhancement of thermoelectric performance through structural modification, the present work has clarified the significant effects of rare earth (RE=Gd, Sm, Nd, and La) doping at Sr-sites in Sr3Ti2O7, both on the structural restoration of distorted TiO6 octahedra and on the Seebeck coefficient, especially at high temperatures. The preferential substitution of RE (3+) at the nine-coordinate Sr-sites can facilitate the degeneration of the conduction band (Ti 3d-t (2g) ) orbital, owing to its special capability in restoring TiO6 octahedra to a higher state of symmetry and thus enhance the density of states (DOS) effective mass of the carriers, which gives rise to a rather large increase in the Seebeck coefficient. The present findings have affirmed the effectiveness of structural restoration in enhancing the Seebeck coefficient by Sr-site-doping, which will help establish a useful solution for Ti-based thermoelectric oxides with inherently distorted TiO6 octahedra to achieve high thermoelectric performance.
  • Takayoshi Katase, Kenji Nomura, Hiromichi Ohta, Hiroshi Yanagi, Toshio Kamiya, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono
    CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 10 3 1084 - 1089 2010年03月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Atomically flat single-crystalline thin films or ScAlMgO4 (SCAM) were fabricated on yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) (111)substrates by reactive solid-phase epitaxy using an ablation ceramic target with an optimized chemical composition. Owing to the good lattice matching, the SCAM layers enhanced two-dimensional growth of ZnO epitaxial films, suppressed the formation of threading dislocations at step edges, and provided larger Hall mobilities than those of ZnO films on YSZ and Al2O3 single-crystal substrates especially at low deposition temperatures < 700 degrees C. The ZnO films exhibited Hall voltage anomaly at temperatures < 140 K, which is explained by a two-layer model with a degenerated layer.
  • Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kenji Nomura, Hideo Hosono, Kunihito Koumoto
    ADVANCES IN ELECTRONIC CERAMICS II 30 9 95 - + 2010年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    We have measured the thermoelectric properties of layered CaxCoO2 epitaxial films when the Ca-content was varied from x = 0.33 to 0.45. The Ca0.33CoO2 film, which was fabricated by ion-exchange of Na0.7CoO2 film, successfully incorporated the additional Ca-ions in-between the CoO2 layers by the thermal annealing with Ca(OH)(2) powder. The thermal annealing caused the Ca-content to increase up to x = 0.45 after the transformation of Ca-arrangements. The electrical conductivity of the film changed from metallic behavior to semiconducting behavior by the transformation of Ca-arrangement, and became more than two orders of magnitude lower with increasing x. The Seebeck coefficient of the film gradually increased with increasing x, and reached to similar to 210 mu V.K-1 at x = 0.45.
  • Akira Yoshikawa, Kosuke Uchida, Kunihito Koumoto, Takeharu Kato, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta
    APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESS 2 12 121103  2009年12月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We show herein fabrication and field-modulated thermopower for KTaO3 single-crystal based field-effect transistors (FETs). The KTaO3 FET exhibits field-effect mobility of similar to 8 cm(2) V-1 s(-1). which is similar to 4 times larger than that of SrTiO3 FETs. The thermopower of the KTaO3 FET decreased from 600 to 220 mu V K-1 by the application of gate electric field up to 1.5 MV cm(-1), similar to 400 mu V K-1 below that of an SrTiO3 FET, clearly reflecting the smaller carrier effective mass of KTaO3. (C) 2009 The Japan Society of Applied Physics DOI: 10.1143/APEX.2.121103
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Yumi Masuoka, Ryoji Asahi, Takeharu Kato, Yuichi Ikuhara, Kenji Nomura, Hideo Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 95 11 113505  2009年09月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We report transistor characteristics and field-modulated thermopower (S) for single crystal SrTiO3-based field-effect transistors (FETs). We use 150-nm-thick amorphous 12CaO center dot 7Al(2)O(3) glass as the gate insulator of the SrTiO3-FET. The resulting SrTiO3-FET exhibits excellent transistor characteristics at room temperature: on-to-off current ratio greater than 10(6), threshold gate voltage of +1.1 V, subthreshold swing of approximately 0.3 V decade(-1), and effective mobility of 2 cm(2) V-1 s(-1). The field-modulated S-value of the SrTiO3-FET varied from -900 to -580 mu V K-1 with electric fields of up to 2 MV cm(-1), demonstrating the effectiveness of the FET structure for the exploration of thermoelectric materials. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3231873]
  • Sung Wng Kim, Ryuichi Tarumi, Hideo Iwasaki, Hiromichi Ohta, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B 80 7 075201  2009年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Thermal conductivity (kappa) and Seebeck coefficient (alpha) of electron-doped light-metal oxide 12CaO center dot 7Al(2)O(3) (C12A7 electride) with a subnanometer-sized cage structure are reported on single crystals with various electron concentrations (N-e). The semiconducting C12A7 electride exhibits n-type conduction with the highest alpha value of -100 mu V K-1 at 300 K. The kappa exhibits an amorphouslike T-2 dependence at low temperatures and varies between 2.3 and 4.5 Wm(-1) K-1 at 300 K. This is an order-of-magnitude lower than that of the constituents, CaO (15 Wm(-1) K-1) and Al2O3 (30 Wm(-1) K-1). These properties are attributed to the cage structure, suggesting that the semiconducting electride should be regarded as a phonon glass and electron crystal material. The thermoelectric performance of electrides evaluated by a dimensionless figure of merit (ZT) shows an optimized value of 2 x 10(-3) at 300 K for the semiconducting electride with N-e of 5 x 10(20) cm(-3).
  • Wilfried Wunderlich, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    PHYSICA B-CONDENSED MATTER 404 16 2202 - 2212 2009年08月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    The effective mass is one of the main factors determining the Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity of thermo-electrics. In this ab-initio LDA-GGA study the effective mass is estimated from the curvature of electronic bands by one-band-approximation and is in excellent agreement with experimental data of Nb- and La-doped SrTiO3. It is clarified that the deformation of SrTiO3 crystals has a significant influence on the bandgap, effective electronic DOS-mass and band-mass, but the electronic effect due to the e(g)-band flattening near the Gamma-point due to Nb-doping up to 0.2 at% is the main factor for the effective mass increase. Doping of La shows a linear decrease of the effective mass; this can be explained by the different surroundings of A- and B-sites in perovskite. Substitution with other elements such as Ba on the A-site and V on the B-site in SrTiO3 increases the effective mass as well. (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier B.V.
  • Yifeng Wang, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 105 10 103701  2009年05月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Crystal structure and thermoelectric properties of Nb5+- and Ln(3+)- (rare earth: La3+, Nd3+, Sm3+, and Gd3+) doped SrO(SrTiO3)(n) (n=1,2) ceramics, which were fabricated by conventional hot-pressing, were measured to clarify the effects of Ti4+- and Sr2+- site substitution on the thermoelectric properties. The thermal conductivities are very close between the n=1 and 2 phases either doped with Nb5+ or Ln(3+) and decreased by similar to 60% at room temperature and similar to 30% at 1000 K as compared to that of SrTiO3, which is likely due to an enhanced phonon scattering at the SrO/(SrTiO3)(n) (n=1,2) interfaces. The density of states effective mass m(d)*(1.8-2.4 m(0)) and consequently the Seebeck coefficient |S| in Nb5+- doped samples are fairly smaller than those reported for SrTiO3, which probably resulted from a deterioration of DOS due to the formation of the singly degenerate a(1g) (Ti 3d(xy)) orbital as the conduction band bottom, which should be induced by the distortion of TiO6 octahedra in (SrTiO3) n layers. However, in the Ln(3+)- doped SrO (SrTiO3)(2), the TiO6 octahedra were found to be restored, in contrast to the Nb5+- doped, with a gradually increasing O-Ti-O bond angle in the (100) plane at high temperatures, which would lead to the formation of triply degenerate Ti 3d-t(2g) (d(xy), d(yz), and d(xz)) orbitals to cause a significant enhancement in m(d)* (similar to 7.5 m(0) at 1000 K) and consequently in |S|. Accordingly, the maximum dimensionless figure of merit ZT similar to 0.24 obtained in 5%-Gd3+-doped SrO(rTiO(3))(2) at 1000 K is about 70% larger than that of Nb-doped SrO(SrTiO3)(2) (ZT(1000) (K) similar to 0.14). (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3117943]
  • Takayoshi Katase, Kenji Nomura, Hiromichi Ohta, Hiroshi Yanagi, Toshio Kamiya, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono
    MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING B-ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL SOLID-STATE MATERIALS 161 1-3 66 - 70 2009年04月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    A homologous series compound ScAlO3(MgO) (SCAM) has a superior lattice matching as small as similar to 1.4% in a-axis with GaN. This paper reports an efficient fabrication process of a single-crystalline SCAM buffer layer on a (1 1 1) yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) substrate using pulsed laser deposition (PLD). A 10-nm thick ZnO epitaxial layer was used to induce solid-phase epitaxial growth of an amorphous (a-) SCAM layer formed at room temperature on (1 1 1) YSZ. It was found that the addition of excess Sc2O3 and ZnO to a SCAM target used for PLD was needed to obtain single-crystalline SCAM films with atomically flat terraces-and-steps surfaces. The resulting single-crystalline SCAM films were examined as buffer layers to grow GaN by molecular beam epitaxy with a plasma nitrogen source. The GaN films were grown epitaxially on the SCAM/YSZ substrates with the epitaxial relationship of [0 0 0 1] GaN parallel to[0 0 0 1] SCAM parallel to[1 1 1] YSZ and [1 0 0] GaN parallel to [11-20] SCAM parallel to [1-10] YSZ. The SCAM buffer layers enhanced lateral growth of the GaN films owing to the good lattice matching. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
  • Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Shin-ichi Nakagawa, Rong Huang, Yuichi Ikuhara, Kenji Nomura, Hideo Hosono, Kunihito Koumoto
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 94 15 142105  2009年04月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Herein we report the anisotropic carrier transport properties of a layered cobaltate, NaxCoO2 epitaxial film grown on the m-plane of an alpha-Al2O3 substrate using reactive solid-phase epitaxy. Scanning and transmission electron microscopy analyses revealed that NaxCoO2 was heteroepitaxially grown with the CoO2 conducting planes inclined by similar to 43 degrees against the alpha-Al2O3 substrate surface. The electrical resistivity parallel to the CoO2 planes was similar to 1/5 of the perpendicular one, but the parallel Seebeck coefficient was about twice as large as the perpendicular one. Hence, a higher thermoelectric efficiency in the cobaltates can be obtained within the CoO2 planes.
  • Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Yukiaki Ishida, Rong Huang, Tomohiro Saito, Yuichi Ikuhara, Kenji Nomura, Hideo Hosono, Kunihito Koumoto
    APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESS 2 3 035503  2009年03月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    The electrical properties of Ca0.33CoO2 epitaxial films are investigated as the Ca2+-arrangement is transformed. Despite identical Ca-content, annealing the film caused the Ca-arrangement to change from a root 3a x root 3a hexagonal type to a 2a x root 3a orthorhombic type, which was confirmed by X-ray diffraction and scanning transmission electron microscopy. A hexagonal Ca-arrangement type, Ca0.33CoO2, exhibited a metallic resistivity as low as 7.5 x 10(-4) Omega.cm and a moderately large thermopower (similar to 100 mu V.K-1), whereas the orthorhombic Ca-arrangement type displayed a thermally-activated resistivity (greater than or similar to 10(-2) Omega.cm) with a slightly increase in thermopower, which led to about a one order of magnitude difference in the thermoelectric power factor. (C) 2009 The Japan Society of Applied Physics DOI: 10.1143/APEX.2.035503
  • Rong Huang, Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Kenji Sugiura, Shin-ichi Nakagawa, Hiromichi Ohta, Tomohiro Saito, Kunihito Koumoto, Tsukasa Hirayama, Yuichi Ikuhara
    JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH 24 1 279 - 287 2009年01月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Microstructures of epitaxial Ca0.33CoO2 thin films, which were grown oil m(1 (1) over bar 00) plane and c(0001) plane of alpha-Al2O3 by the reactive solid-phase epitaxy (R-SPE) method and the subsequent ion-exchange treatment, were investigated in detail by using selected-area electron diffraction, high-resolution transmission electron microcopy, spherical aberration-corrected high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (Cs-corrected HAADF-STEM), and electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS). Detailed electron diffraction analyses reveal that the orientation relationships between Ca0.33CoO2 thin film and substrate are [11 (2) over bar0](Ca0.33CoO2)//[0001](Al2O3) and (0001)(Ca0.33CoO2), having an angle of about 43 degrees with (1 (1) over bar 00)(Al2O3) for the film deposited oil m(1 (1) over bar 00) plane, and [1 (1) over bar 00](Ca0.33CoO2)//[11 (2) over bar0](Al2O3) and (0001)(Ca0.33CoO2)//(0001)(Al2O3) to the film deposited on c(0001) plane though a Ca-Al-O amorphous layer formed between them. CoO seed layer near the interface and residual Co3O4 phase inside the films were observed and identified by HAADF-STEM and EELS in both samples. Such microstructural configuration indicates that the processes of film growth during R-SPE are (i) oxidation of CoO into Co3O4 With residual CoO layer near the interface and (ii) intercalation of Na+ layer into Co3O4 to achieve the layered NaxCoO2 film while forming Na-Al-O amorphous layer at the interface.
  • Kenji Nomura, Toshio Kamiya, Hiromichi Ohta, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 93 19 192107  2008年11月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Roles of H(2)O addition to an annealing atmosphere were investigated for amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O thin-film transistors fabricated at room temperature. Although dry O(2) annealing improved saturation mobility (mu(sat)) and subthreshold voltage swings (S), wet O(2) annealing further improved them to mu(sat)similar to 12 cm(2)(V s)(-1) and S < 0.12 V decade(-1) along with improvement of their uniformity. Desorption of OH-related species caused conductivity increase during thermal annealing at < 310 degrees C. Zn-O components started to desorb at similar to 300 degrees C for the unannealed and the dry O(2) annealed films, while these were suppressed remarkably by the wet O(2) annealing.
  • Rong Huang, Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto, Tsukasa Hirayama, Yuichi Ikuhara
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 93 18 181907  2008年11月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Ca-ion superstructures such as root 3a X root 3a (hexagonal) and 2a X root 3a (orthorhombic) in layered Ca0.33CoO2 crystalline film, which were prepared by the reactive solid-phase epitaxy and the subsequent ion-exchange treatment, were directly distinguished by using spherical-aberration-corrected high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM). The fluctuation of Ca intensities in the HAADF-STEM image indicates the existence of many Ca vacancies in the 2a X root 3a orthorhombic superstructure, which is consistent with the partial occupation of Ca (x=0.33) in the cation sites of x=0.5. (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3021369]
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Kenji Sugiura, Kunihito Koumoto
    INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 47 19 8429 - 8436 2008年10月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Thermoelectric energy conversion technology to convert waste heat into electricity has received much attention. In addition, metal oxides have recently been considered as thermoelectric power generation materials that can operate at high temperatures on the basis of their potential advantages over heavy metallic alloys in chemical and thermal robustness. We have fabricated high-quality epitaxial films composed of oxide thermoelectric materials that are suitable for clarifying the intrinsic "real" properties. This review focuses on the thermoelectric properties of two representative oxide epitaxial films, p-type Ca3CO4O9 and n-type SrTiO3, which exhibit the best thermoelectric figures of merit, ZT(=S-2 sigma T kappa(-1), S = Seebeck coefficient, a = electrical conductivity, K = thermal conductivity, and T = absolute temperature) among oxide thermoelectric materials reported to date. In addition, we introduce the recently discovered giant S of two-dimensional electrons confined within a unit cell layer thickness (similar to 0.4 nm) of SrTiO3.
  • K. Nomura, T. Kamiya, H. Ohta, K. Shimizu, M. Hirano, H. Hosono
    PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE 205 8 1910 - 1914 2008年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • Takayoshi Katase, Kenji Noinura, Hirornichi Ohta, Hiroshi Yanagi, Toshio Kamiya, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono
    THIN SOLID FILMS 516 17 5842 - 5846 2008年07月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Single-crystalline thin films of ScAlMgO4 (SCAM) were fabricated on YSZ (I 11) substrates by reactive solid-phase epitaxy (R-SPE) using ScGaO3(ZnO)(m) (SGZO) single-crystalline buffer layers, which suppress interface reactions between the SCAM layers and the YSZ substrates. First, post-annealing of the SCAM layers fabricated by the R-SPE process was examined. When annealing temperature was raised to > 1200 degrees C, the formation of a spinel MgAl2O4 phase was observed. This is due probably to out-diffusion of Sc ions from the SCAM layers to the YSZ substrates. By introducing an SGZO buffer layer, a single-phase SCAM layer with a step-and-terrace surface was obtained by annealing at 1450 degrees C without the spinel formation. The SCAM layer was grown heteroepitaxially with an epitaxial relationship of (000 1)SCAM // (111)ysz and 010)(SCAM) // (110)ysz. Atomically flat surfaces were eventually formed by chemical-mechanical polishing. The SCAM layer was applied to a lattice-matched buffer layer for the growth of ZnO film, leading to marked lateral growth of ZnO domains. (C) 2007 Published by Elsevier B.V.
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Yoriko Mune, Kunihito Koumoto, Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Yuichi Ikuhara
    THIN SOLID FILMS 516 17 5916 - 5920 2008年07月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Seebeck coefficient (vertical bar S vertical bar) of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) confined within (SrTiO3)(LB)/(SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3)(LW) superlattices were measured at room temperature to clarify the critical thicknesses of barrier SrTiO3 (L-B) and well SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3 (L-W) for giant vertical bar S vertical bar [H. Ohta et al., Nat. Mater. 6, 129 (2007)]. The vertical bar S vertical bar values of the superlattices increased proportionally to L-W(-1/2) due to increasing of the density of states near the conduction band edge (quantum size effect), and reached 300 mu V K-1 at L-W = 1 unit cell SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3 (0.39 nm), which is similar to 5 times larger than that of the SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3 bulk (60 mu V K-1). The critical thickness of L-B and L-W for giant vertical bar S vertical bar was clarified to be 16 unit cells (6.25 nm). The best thermoelectric performance can be obtained at (L-B, L-W)=(16, 1). (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
  • Yi Feng Wang, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Kournoto
    CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL 34 4 849 - 852 2008年05月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    To clarify the effect of substitutional electron doping on the thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT= S-2 sigma T kappa(-1)) of Ruddlesden-Popper phase SrO(SrTiO3)(n) (or Srn+1TinO3n+1), measurements were conducted for several thermoelectric parameters, e.g. electrical conductivity (a), Seebeck coefficient (S) and thermal conductivity (kappa), of (Sr1-xREx)(n+1)TinO3n+1 (n = 1 or 2, RE (rare earth): La or Nd, x = 0.05 and 0.1) dense ceramics prepared by a conventional solid-state reaction and hot-pressing technique. Crystal structures of the resultant ceramics were represented as (Sr1-xREx)(n+1) TinO3n+1, evaluated by powder X-ray diffraction followed by the Rietveld analysis. All the ceramics exhibited electrical conductivity and the a values simply depended on the dopant concentration, indicating that both La3+ and Nd3+ ions act as electron donors. The vertical bar S vertical bar values increased with temperature due to decrease in the chemical potential. Significant reduction of the K values was observed as compared to cubic-perovskite SrTiO3. The ZT value increased with temperature and reached 0.15 at 1000 K for (Sr0.95La0.05)(3)Ti2O7. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd and Techna Group S.r.l. All rights reserved.
  • Atsushi Mizutani, Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 8 3 755 - 758 2008年03月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    High-quality epitaxial films of Li0.93CoO2 were successfully grown on the (0001)-face of alpha-Al2O3 substrates via the topotactic ion exchange of Na0.8CoO2 epitaxial films. The average x-value of the LixCoO2 films was controlled from 0.60 to 0.93 by immersing in a K2S2O8 aqueous solution. The metal (x(met). <= 0.72)/insulator (x(ins). <= 0.83) phase separation was clearly observed in the range of 0.72 < x < 0.87. Seebeck coefficient (S) for the Li0.6CoO2 film was +38 mu V center dot K-1, and it increased gradually with the x-value (x <= 0.72), while no significant x-value dependence of S was observed at x > 0.72, indicating that the metal phase dominates the S-value of the metal/insulator mixture.
  • Yukiaki Ishida, Ritsuko Eguchi, Masaharu Matsunami, Koji Horiba, Munetaka Taguchi, Ashish Chainani, Yasunori Senba, Haruhiko Ohashi, Hiromichi Ohta, Shik Shin
    PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 100 5 056401  2008年02月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Resonant photoemission at the Ti 2p and O 1s edges on a Nb-doped SrTiO(3) thin film revealed that the coherent state (CS) at the Fermi level (E(F)) had a mainly Ti 3d character whereas the incoherent in-gap state (IGS) positioned similar to 1.5 eV below E(F) had a mixed character of Ti 3d and O 2p states. This indicates that the IGS is formed by a spectral-weight transfer from the CS and subsequent spectral-weight redistribution through d-p hybridization. We discuss the evolution of the excitation spectrum with 3d band filling and rationalize the IGS through a mechanism similar to that proposed by Haldane and Anderson.
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Rong Huang, Yuichi Ikuhara
    Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters 2 3 105 - 107 2008年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Herein we demonstrate that amorphous oxide semiconductor (AOS) superlattices composed of a-In-Zn-O (well) and a-In-Ga-Zn-O (barrier) layers, fabricated on SiO2 glass substrate by pulsed laser deposition at room temperature, exhibited an enhanced Seebeck coefficient |S |. The |S | value increases drastically with decreasing a-In-Zn-O thickness (dIZO) when dIZO < ∼5 nm, and reached 73 uV K (dIZO = 0.3 nm), which is ∼4 times larger than that of bulk |S|3D(19 uV K '), while it kept its high electrical conductivity, clearly demonstrating that the quantum size effect can be utilized in AOS superlattices. © 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
  • Kyu Hyoung Lee, Yoriko Mune, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESS 1 1 015007  2008年01月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Herein we report the carrier transport properties of [(SrTi0O(3))(x)/(SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3)(1)](20) (x = 0-50) superlattices at high temperatures (T = 300-900K). Significant structural changes were not observed in the superlattices after annealing at 900K in a vacuum. The Seebeck coefficient of the [(SrTiO3)(20)/(SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3)(1)](20) superlattice, which was 300 mu V.K-1 at room temperature, gradually increased with temperature and reached 450 mu V.K-1 at 900 K, which is similar to 3 times larger than that of bulk SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3. These observations provide clear evidence that the superlattice is stable and exhibits a giant Seebeck coefficient even at high temperature. (C) 2008 The Japan Society of Applied Physics.
  • Two-dimensional thermoelectric Seebeck coefficient of the SrTiO3 based superlattices
    phys. stat. sol. (b) 245 2363  2008年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • Kyu Hyoung Lee, Yi Feng Wang, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    ADVANCES IN ELECTRONIC CERAMICS 28 8 193 - + 2008年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    We have investigated the thermoelectric properties and crystallographic features of Ruddlesden-Popper phase Ca- and/or Nb-doped SrO(SrTiO3)(n) (n = 1, 2) to elucidate their potential as thermoelectric materials and clarify the influence of crystal structure on the carrier effective mass in Ti-based oxides containing TiO6 octahedra. Significant reduction in the lattice thermal conductivity by suppression of the mean free path of phonons possibly associated with the presence of internal sublattice SrO/(SrTiO3)n interfaces was observed. It was also found that large Seebeck coefficients of Ti-based oxides can be attributed to the high value of carrier effective mass, which originates from the high symmetry of the TiO6 octahedra. The overall ZT values obtained in the present study were in the range of 0.09 - 0.15 at 1000 K.
  • Keisuke Kato, Masahiro Yamamoto, Shingo Ohta, Hiroaki Muta, Ken Kurosaki, Shinsuke Yamanaka, Hideo Iwasaki, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 102 11 116107  2007年12月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Herein we demonstrate that Eu2+ substitution of SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3 is effective in reducing the thermal conductivity, with no reduction in the thermoelectric power factor (S-2 sigma; S, Seebeck coefficient; sigma, electrical conductivity). We prepared cubic (Sr,Eu)Ti0.8Nb0.2O3 crystals having the same lattice parameter (a=0.395 nm) over the whole composition range. Although no dependence upon the Eu content was observed for the electron transport properties, including the density of states effective mass and carrier relaxation time for (Sr,Eu)Ti0.8Nb0.2O3, the mean free path of the phonon was reduced similar to 12% at room temperature when half of the Sr2+ was substituted by Eu2+. (C) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
  • Yifeng Wang, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Hideki Hyuga, Hideki Kita, Katsuhiko Inaba, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 91 24 2007年12月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    We found that Sm3+ substitution in SrO (SrTiO3)(2) is effective in improving the Seebeck coefficient (S). The vertical bar S vertical bar value increases notably with temperature, benefiting from an enhancement of the density of states (DOS) effective mass m(d)(*) from similar to 3m(0) (300 K) to similar to 7.5m(0) (1000 K), due to an improvement of the local symmetry of TiO6 octahedra, enhancing the degeneracy in the Ti 3d orbitals, which form the conduction band (CB), and also to an accompanying lattice expansion, which gives rise to a higher DOS at the bottom of the CB and, consequently, a larger m(d)(*). (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
  • Yoriko Mune, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto, Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Yuichi Ikuhara
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 91 19 192105  2007年11月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We report two-dimensional Seebeck coefficients (parallel to S parallel to(2D)) of [(SrTiO3)(x)/(SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3)(y)](20) (x=1-60, y=1-20) superlattices, which were grown on the (100) face of insulating LaAlO3 substrates to clarify the origin of the giant parallel to S parallel to(2D) values of the SrTiO3 superlattices [H. Ohta , Nat. Mater. 6, 129 (2007)]. The parallel to S parallel to(2D) values of the [(SrTiO3)(17)/(SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3)(y)](20) superlattices increased proportionally to y(-0.5) and reached 320 mu V K-1 (y=1), which is approximately five times larger than that of the SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3 bulk (parallel to S parallel to(3D)=61 mu V K-1). The slope of the log parallel to S parallel to(2D)-log y plots was -0.5, proving that the density of states in the ground state for SrTiO3 increases inversely proportionally to y. The critical barrier thickness for quantum electron confinement was also clarified to be 6.25 nm (16 unit cells of SrTiO3).
  • Yukiaki Ishida, Hiromichi Ohta, Atsushi Fujimori, Hideo Hosono
    JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 76 10 103709  2007年10月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We have performed a temperature-dependent photoemission study of a NaxCoO(2) (x similar to 0.8) epitaxial thin film prepared by the reactive solid-phase epitaxy method. The chemical potential shift as a function of temperature was derived from the Co 3d peak shift, and revealed a crossover from the degenerate Fermion state at low temperatures to the correlated hopping state of Co3+/Co4+ mixed-valence at high temperatures. This suggests that the large thermoelectric power at high temperatures should be considered in the correlated hopping picture.
  • Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kenji Nomura, Tomohiro Saito, Yuichi Ikuhara, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono, Kunihito Koumoto
    MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS 48 8 2104 - 2107 2007年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    To clarify the thermoelectric properties of the layered cobalt oxide Ca3Co4O9 epitaxial film fabricated by the topotactic ion-exchange method [K. Sugiura et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 032111 (2006)], the electrical resistivity (rho), Hall coefficient (R-H), and Seebeck coefficient (S) of high quality Ca3Co4O9 epitaxial film were examined over the temperature range 10-1000 K. The film exhibited a low rho of 4.0 x 10(-3) Omega cm and a large S of similar to+200 mu V K-1, which leads to the thermoelectric power factor of 1.0 x 10(-3) W m(-1) K-2, at 1000 K. Furthermore, the film exhibited good thermal stability at 1000 K in air.
  • Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology 4 4 308 - 317 2007年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    This article reviews high-quality epitaxial film growth of layered cobalt oxides by reactive solid-phase epitaxy (R-SPE) with topotactic ion-exchange methods. Epitaxial film of Na0.8CoO2 was grown on a (0001)-oriented α-Al2O3 substrate by R-SPE using CoO film as the starting material. The Na0.8 CoO2 epitaxial films were converted into high-quality epitaxial films of Sr0.32Na0.21 CoO2 and [Ca2 CoO3]x CoO2 by topotactic ion-exchange methods. The Sr0.32 Na0.21CoO2 film exhibited better stability against moisture than that of the Na0.8 CoO2 film, while it retained the good thermoelectric properties of Na0.8 CoO2. The [Ca2CoO3]x CoO2 film exhibited a high electrical conductivity of 2.95 × 102S/cm and a large Seebeck coefficient of +125μV/ K at 300K. © 2007 The American Ceramic Society.
  • Kyu Hyoung Lee, Yi Feng Wang, Sung Wng Kim, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology 4 4 326 - 331 2007年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We report herein on Ruddlesden-Popper-type doped Srn+1 TinO3n+1 (n =2) as a potential candidate for n-type thermoelectric (TE) oxides. The TE properties of 5at.% La-, Nd-, and Nb-doped Sr3Ti2O7 polycrystalline ceramics were investigated and the origin of Seebeck coefficient was discussed from the viewpoint of the symmetry of TiO6 octahedra. A significant reduction in the lattice thermal conductivity was observed by the enhancement of phonon scattering at SrO/(SrTiO3)n interfaces originating from the inherent superlattice structure, and the maximum dimensionless figure of merit, ZT ∼0.15, at a 1000K value was obtained in 5at.% La-doped Sr3Ti2O7. © 2007 The American Ceramic Society.
  • Kyu Hyoung Lee, Akihiro Ishizaki, Sung Wng Kim, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 102 3 033702  2007年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We report the epitaxial film growth, by pulsed laser deposition, of c-axis-oriented Nb-doped SrO(SrTiO3)(1) films having a K2NiF4-type structure and their thermoelectric properties over a wide temperature range, from 20 to 800 K. High-resolution x-ray diffraction and reflection high energy electron diffraction patterns revealed that the films were grown heteroepitaxially on the (001) face of the LaAlO3 substrate. The thermoelectric properties of the Nb-doped SrO(SrTiO3)(1) epitaxial films were improved in terms of power factor compared to those for polycrystalline Nb-doped SrO(SrTiO3)(1). A theoretical analysis of the transport parameters revealed that the intrinsic transport occurred predominantly in the SrTiO3 layers. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
  • Hidenori Hiramatsu, Kazushige Ueda, Hiromichi Ohta, Masahiro Hirano, Maiko Kikuchi, Hiroshi Yanagi, Toshio Kamiya, Hideo Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 91 1 012104  2007年07月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    The high density hole doping (1.7x10(21) cm(-3)) for a wide gap (E-g=similar to 2.8 eV) p-type semiconductor was achieved on 40 nm thick Mg-doped LaCuOSe epitaxial films. These films exhibited distinct free carrier absorption, and the effective mass and momentum relaxation time were analyzed. Its small hole mobility [similar to 3.5 cm(2)/(V s)] compared to the electron mobilities of wide gap n-type semiconductors is attributed to a heavy effective mass of 1.6 +/- 0.2m(e). Regardless of the heavy hole doping, a band filling effect was not observed. These results are discussed with a rigid band model and an acceptor band model. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
  • Kyu Hyoung Lee, Sung Wng Kim, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 101 8 083707  2007年04月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    The thermoelectric properties and crystallographic features of layered perovskite-type Ca-substituted (Sr1-xCax)(3)(Ti1-yNby)(2)O-7 (y=0-0.2), Ruddlesden-Popper phases were investigated. The influence of crystal structure and carrier concentration on the carrier effective mass for Ti-based metal oxides based on TiO6 octahedra and having a significant Ca substitution effect are discussed. It was found from structural analysis that the large Seebeck coefficients of Ca-substituted compounds can be attributed to the high values of carrier effective mass, which originates from the enhancement of the symmetry of the TiO6 octahedra. Low thermal conductivities, 3.6-3.8 W m(-1) K-1 at 300 K, were obtained for Ca-substituted compositions due to phonon scattering at SrO/(SrTiO3)(2) interfaces of the inherent superlattice structure and to mass-defect phonon scattering between Ca (M-Ca=40) and Sr (M-Sr=88). The highest ZT value obtained was 0.15 at 1000 K, for 10 at % Ca-substituted Sr-3(Ti0.95Nb0.05)(2)O-7. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Sungwng Kim, Yorika Mune, Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Kenji Nomura, Shingo Ohta, Takashi Nomura, Yuki Nakanishi, Yuichi Ikuhara, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono, Kunihito Koumoto
    NATURE MATERIALS 6 2 129 - 134 2007年02月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Enhancement of the Seebeck coeffcient (S) without reducing the electrical conductivity (sigma) is essential to realize practical thermoelectric materials exhibiting a dimensionless figure of merit (ZT = S-2 (.) s (.) T (.) kappa(-1)) exceeding 2, where T is the absolute temperature and. is the thermal conductivity. Here, we demonstrate that a high-density two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) confined within a unit cell layer thickness in SrTiO3 yields unusually large vertical bar S vertical bar, approximately five times larger than that of SrTiO3 bulks, while maintaining a high sigma(2DEG). In the best case, we observe vertical bar S vertical bar = 850 mu VK-1 and sigma(2DEG) = 1.4 x 10(3) S cm(-1). In addition, by using the kappa of bulk single-crystal SrTiO3 at room temperature, we estimate ZT similar to 2.4 for the 2DEG, corresponding to ZT similar to 0.24 for a complete device having the 2DEG as the active region. The present approach using a 2DEG provides a new route to realize practical thermoelectric materials without the use of toxic heavy elements.
  • Masahiro Yamamoto, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 90 7 072101  2007年02月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Herein the authors propose a compositional thermoelectric phase diagram, which includes the density of states effective mass (m(d)(*)) carrier relaxation time (tau), and thermoelectric power factor (S-2 sigma, where S and sigma are Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity) for high-quality epitaxial films composed of 20%-Nb-doped CaTiO3-SrTiO3-BaTiO3 solid solutions [(Ca,Sr,Ba)(Ti0.8Nb0.2)O-3]. The m(d)(*) values almost proportionally increase with the in-plane lattice parameter of (Ca,Sr,Ba)(Ti0.8Nb0.2)O-3 epitaxial film, while the tau values drastically decrease when Ca and/or Ba are substituted for Sr in Sr(Ti0.8Nb0.2)O-3, indicating that the Sr-site substitution negatively affects the thermoelectric performance of Nb-doped SrTiO3. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
  • Kenji Nomura, Toshio Kamiya, Hiromichi Ohta, Tomoya Uruga, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B 75 3 035212  2007年01月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Ionic amorphous oxide semiconductors (IAOSs) are new materials for flexible thin film transistors that exhibit field-effect mobilities of similar to 10 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1) [K. Nomura , Nature 488, 432 (2004)]. The local coordination structure in an IAOS, In-Ga-Zn-O (a-IGZO), was examined using extended x-ray absorption fine structure analysis combined with ab initio calculations. The short-range ordering and coordination structures in a-IGZO are similar to those in the corresponding crystalline phase, InGaZnO(4), and edge-sharing structures consisting of In-O polyhedra remain in the amorphous structure. The In(3+) 5s orbitals form an extended state with a band effective mass of similar to 0.2m(e) at the conduction band bottom.
  • Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY 4 4 308 - 317 2007年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    This article reviews high-quality epitaxial film growth of layered cobalt oxides by reactive solid-phase epitaxy (R-SPE) with topotactic ion-exchange methods. Epitaxial film of Na0.8CoO2 was grown on a (0001)-oriented alpha-Al2O3 substrate by R-SPE using CoO film as the starting material. The Na0.8CoO2 epitaxial films were converted into high-quality epitaxial films of Sr0.32Na0.21CoO2 and [Ca2CoO3](x)CoO2 by topotactic ion-exchange methods. The Sr0.32Na0.21CoO2 film exhibited better stability against moisture than that of the Na0.8CoO2 film, while it retained the good thermoelectric properties of Na0.8CoO2. The [Ca2CoO3](x)CoO2 film exhibited a high electrical conductivity of 2.95 x 10(2) S/cm and a large Seebeck coefficient of +125 mu V/K at 300 K.
  • Kenji Nomura, Toshio Kamiya, Hiromichi Ohta, Tomoya Uruga, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B 75 3 035212  2007年01月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Ionic amorphous oxide semiconductors (IAOSs) are new materials for flexible thin film transistors that exhibit field-effect mobilities of similar to 10 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1) [K. Nomura , Nature 488, 432 (2004)]. The local coordination structure in an IAOS, In-Ga-Zn-O (a-IGZO), was examined using extended x-ray absorption fine structure analysis combined with ab initio calculations. The short-range ordering and coordination structures in a-IGZO are similar to those in the corresponding crystalline phase, InGaZnO(4), and edge-sharing structures consisting of In-O polyhedra remain in the amorphous structure. The In(3+) 5s orbitals form an extended state with a band effective mass of similar to 0.2m(e) at the conduction band bottom.
  • Toshio Kamiya, Yujiro Takeda, Kenji Nomura, Hiromichi Ohta, Hiroshi Yanagi, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono
    CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 6 11 2451 - 2456 2006年11月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Effects of a lattice-matched buffer layer on growth, structure, and transport properties of ZnO thin films were examined using a homologous series layered compound, InGaO3(ZnO)(5) (IGZO5). High-quality single-crystalline IGZO5 layers were fabricated on yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) (111) substrates by reactive solid-phase epitaxy. ZnO layers deposited on the IGZO5 buffer layers showed smooth and uniform surface morphologies compared to those deposited on YSZ (111) without the IGZO5 buffer layer. Then postgrowth annealing was examined to convert the ZnO surface to an atomically flat surface. When the IGZO5 buffer layer was used, the annealing temperature was reduced from 1000 to 700 degrees C, which was attributable to the smooth surface morphology and good lattice matching of the buffer layer. The annealed films exhibited rather large Hall mobilities 73-82 cm(2) (Vs)(-1), which are larger than those reported for epitaxial ZnO films fabricated at similar temperatures with similar thicknesses. Cross-sectional high-resolution transmission electron microscopy revealed that the step height of the IGZO5 buffer layer is automatically adjusted to the c-axis period of the ZnO crystal lattice. The present findings demonstrate the IGZO5 layer works as a three-dimensional lattice-matching substrate for ZnO.
  • Daisuke Kurita, Shingo Ohta, Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 100 9 096105  2006年11月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    To compare the intrinsic thermoelectric (TE) properties of heavily Nb-doped TiO2 to those of heavily Nb-doped SrTiO3 [S. Ohta , Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 092108 (2005)], the electrical conductivity (sigma), carrier concentration (n(e)), Hall mobility (mu(Hall)), and Seebeck coefficient (S) of heavily Nb-doped TiO2 (anatase) epitaxial films were measured at high temperatures (300-900 K). The epitaxial films were grown on the (100)-face of LaAlO3 single-crystalline substrates by a pulsed-laser deposition technique at 800 degrees C. The carrier effective mass (m(*)) of the anatase TiO2 epitaxial films was similar to 1m(0), which is an order of magnitude smaller than that of Nb-doped SrTiO3 (similar to 10m(0)). The estimated TE power factor (S-2 sigma) of the similar to 2%-Nb-doped anatase TiO2 film (n(e)similar to 5x10(20) cm(-3)) was similar to 2.5x10(-4) W m(-1) K-2 at 900 K, which is approximately 15% of the 20%-Nb-doped SrTiO3 (1.5x10(-3) W m(-1) K-2). The present findings will help establish a future TE material design concept for Ti-based metal oxides. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
  • D. Flahaut, T. Mihara, R. Funahashi, N. Nabeshima, K. Lee, H. Ohta, K. Koumoto
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 100 8 084911  2006年10月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    CaMnO3 is an electron-doped compound which belongs to the perovskite family. Despite its high Seebeck coefficient S value, the figure of merit at high temperature remains low due to its large resistivity rho(rho(300 K)=2 Omega cm). To optimize the performance of this material in terms of thermoelectric properties, several substitutions have been attempted on the Ca site to decrease the rho. Structure and thermoelectric properties of polycrystalline samples Ca(1-x)A(x)MnO(3) (A=Yb, Tb, Nd, and Ho) have been investigated. Although rho strongly depends on the ionic radius < r(A)> and carrier concentration, we have shown that the thermal conductivity kappa is mainly driven by the atomic weight of the A site and decreases with it. Therefore, it seems that the S, rho, and kappa could be controlled separately. For instance, the highest dimensionless ZT (=0.16) has been obtained at 1000 K in the air for Ca0.9Yb0.1MnO3. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
  • Yukiaki Ishida, Atsushi Fujimori, Hiromichi Ohta, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 89 15 153502  2006年10月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    The authors have performed a depth-profile analysis of an all-oxide p-n junction diode n-ZnO/p-NiO using photoemission spectroscopy combined with Ar-ion sputtering. Systematic core-level shifts were observed during the gradual removal of the ZnO overlayer, and were interpreted using a model based on charge conservation. Spatial profile of the potential around the interface was deduced, including the charge-depletion width of 2.3 nm extending on the ZnO side and the built-in potential of 0.54 eV. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
  • Kyu Hyoung Lee, Sung Wng Kim, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 100 6 063717  2006年09月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    A class of materials known as superlattices has shown substantial promise for potential thermoelectric (TE) applications because of its low thermal conductivity. We have investigated natural superlattice Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) phases [S. N. Ruddlesden and P. Popper, Acta Crystallogr. 10, 538 (1957)] to elucidate their potential as TE materials. The TE properties of Nb-doped SrO(SrTiO3)(n) (n=1,2) with a RP structure were measured, and the origin of the TE properties is discussed from the viewpoint of the structure of the TiO6 octahedron. Compared with the cubic perovskite-type Nb-doped SrTiO3, the lattice thermal conductivity decreased by more than 50% (4.4-5 W m(-1) K-1) at room temperature and by 30% (1.9-2.2 W m(-1) K-1) at 1000 K. There was a decrease in electrical conductivity owing to the randomly distributed insulating SrO layers in polycrystalline RP phases, and it was found that large TE power can be obtained in conjunction with high symmetry TiO6 octahedra. The largest dimensionless figure of merit (ZT), 0.14 at 1000 K, was obtained in 5 at. % Nb-doped SrO(SrTiO3)(2). (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
  • Hidenori Hiramatsu, Hayato Kamioka, Kazushige Ueda, Hiromichi Ohta, Toshio Kamiya, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono
    PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE 203 11 2800 - 2811 2006年09月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Electronic and optical properties of widegap oxychalcogenides, LaCuOCh (Ch = chalcogen) and La2CdO2Se2, are reviewed with a focus on those relevant to their layered crystal structures, including high hole mobility, degenerate p-type conduction, room temperature exciton, and large third order optical nonlinearity. In particular, the widegap p-type metallic conduction was realized in Mg-doped LaCuOSe: the first demonstration among any class of widegap materials including GaN: Mg. Furthermore, we demonstrate the room temperature operation of a blue light-emitting diode using a pn hetero-junction composed of a LaCuOSe epilayer and an n-type amorphous InGaZn5O8. Those results strongly suggest that a series of the layered oxychalcogenides are applicable to the light-emitting layers in opto-electronic devices that operate in the ultraviolet-blue region as well as to transparent p-type conductors. (c) 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KG&A, Weinheim.
  • Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kenji Nomura, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono, Kunihito Koumoto
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 89 3 032111  2006年07月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Epitaxial film of a layered cobalt oxide, Ca3Co4O9, was fabricated on a (0001) face of an alpha-Al2O3 substrate by a topotactic ion-exchange method using a gamma-Na0.8CoO2 epitaxial film as a precursor. High-resolution x-ray diffraction and atomic force microscope measurements revealed that the film was high-quality (001)-oriented Ca3Co4O9 with stepped and terraced surface morphology. The film exhibits a high electrical conductivity of 2.95x10(2) S cm(-1) and a large Seebeck coefficient of similar to+125 mu V K-1, which leads to the thermoelectric power factor (TPF) of 4.5x10(-4) W m(-1) K-2 at 300 K, potentially usable as a building block of the multilayered film structure with an enhanced TPF value. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Atsushi Mizutani, Kenji Sugiura, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono, Kunihito Koumoto
    ADVANCED MATERIALS 18 13 1649 - + 2006年07月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    An epitaxially grown NaxCoO2 film can be peeled off from its alpha-Al2O3 substrate by dissolving the interfacial layer between the film and the substrate in water, as shown in the figure. The freestanding film thus formed can be pasted on an amorphous glass substrate and used for growing an epitaxial ZnO film. This method can be used to impart atomic regularity to amorphous glass, polymer, and metal surfaces.
  • K Nomura, A Takagi, T Kamiya, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono
    JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS PART 1-REGULAR PAPERS BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS & REVIEW PAPERS 45 5B 4303 - 4308 2006年05月 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • K Sugiura, H Ohta, K Nomura, H Yanagi, M Hirano, H Hosono, K Koumoto
    INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 45 5 1894 - 1896 2006年03月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We have developed a unique multistep film growth technique, combining reactive solid-phase epitaxy (R-SPE) with an intercalation process, to fabricate epitaxial films of superconducting sodium-cobalt oxyhydrate, Na(0.3)CoO(2)center dot 1.3H(2)O. An epitaxial film of Na0.8CoO2 grown on an alpha-Al2O3(0001) substrate by R-SPE was subjected to oxidation and hydration treatment, leading to the formation of a Na(0.3)CoO(2)center dot 1.3H(2)O epitaxial film. The film exhibited metallic electrical resistivity with a superconducting transition at 4 K, similar to that of bulk single crystals. The present technique is suitable and probably the only method for the epitaxial growth of superconducting Na(0.3)CoO(2)center dot 1.3H(2)O.
  • Y Ogo, K Nomura, H Yanagi, H Ohta, T Kamiya, M Hirano, H Hosono
    THIN SOLID FILMS 496 1 64 - 69 2006年02月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    A reactive solid-phase epitaxy (R-SPE) method combines deposition of a thick amorphous or polycrystalline layer with a desired chemical composition and post-deposition solid-phase epitaxial growth. The solid-phase epitaxial growth is invoked by thermal annealing with all assistance of a sacrificial layer working as an epitaxial template. Thereby it enables Lis to grow high-quality epitaxial films of complex oxides whose epitaxial films are not grown by conventional high-temperature growth techniques. It was reported that 2-nm-thick ZnO layers worked as template for growing InGaO3(ZnO)(m) (m = integer) epitaxial films. The present study extended the R-SPE technique to growth of various complex oxides with chemical compositions of RAO(3)(MO)(m) and to use of various epitaxial template layers. We found that mono oxide epitaxial layers such as In2O3 and Ga2O3 work as template layers as well. Alternatively, a ZnO epitaxial layer is also applicable to ZnO-free compounds. The films obtained were grown heteroepitaxially on YSZ(111) and single-crystalline when the fabrication conditions are optimized. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
  • K Sugiura, H Ohta, K Nomura, M Hirano, H Hosono, K Koumoto
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 88 8 082109  2006年02月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Thermoelectric properties of gamma-Sr0.32Na0.21CoO2 epitaxial films, which were fabricated on the (0001)-face of alpha-Al2O3 substrates by ion exchange processes between Na+ and Sr2+ ions with gamma-Na0.8CoO2 epitaxial films, were measured to clarify the effect of Sr2+-ion exchange of gamma-Na0.8CoO2 on the thermoelectric properties. Electrical conductivity (sigma), Seebeck coefficient (S), and thermoelectric power factor (PF=S-2 sigma) of the gamma-Sr0.32Na0.21CoO2 film (300 K) were 8.9x10(2) S cm(-1), +120 mu V K-1, and 1.2x10(-3) W m(-1) K-2, respectively. These values were relatively large compared to those of gamma-Na0.8CoO2 epitaxial films (sigma=1.2x10(3) S cm(-1), S=+95 mu V K-1, and PF=1.1x10(-3) W m(-1) K-2). The gamma-Sr0.32Na0.21CoO2 epitaxial film exhibited much improved chemical stability against moisture compared to the gamma-Na0.8CoO2 epitaxial film. The Sr2+-ion exchange of gamma-Na0.8CoO2 is vital for practical thermoelectric applications. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
  • 太田 裕道
    日本セラミックス協会学術論文誌 : Nippon Seramikkusu Kyokai gakujutsu ronbunshi 114 1326 147 - 154 公益社団法人日本セラミックス協会 2006年02月01日 
    High-quality epitaxial film growth for several complex oxides having layered structure by "Reactive Solid-Phase-Epitaxy (R-SPE)" is reviewed. Materials focused are InGaO_3(ZnO)_m (m=integer), LaCuOS and Na_xCoO_2(x〜0.8). For the epitaxial film growths of the complex systems with a complicated layered crystal structure, it is necessary to form an epitaxial template layer before the film deposition, followed by the thermal annealing of the bilayer films. The layers subsequently deposited on the template layer may be amorphous, polycrystalline or powder, which allows control of the epitaxially grown films in the R-SPE method.
  • Shingo Ohta, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto
    Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan 114 1325 102 - 105 2006年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We investigated thermoelectric properties of 20-%-Nb-doped SrTiO 3 at high-temperature (300-1000 K) using single-crystalline epitaxial film, polycrystalline film (average grain size ∼200 nm) and ceramic (average grain size ∼20 μm) samples to clarify the effect of grain boundaries on the thermoelectric performance. Although carrier concentration and Seebeck coefficient of all samples showed no significant differences, Hall mobility of the polycrystalline film was extremely small (≪10-1 cm2V-1S-1 at 300 K) as compared to those of the epitaxial film and the ceramic sample (∼3 cm 2V-1S-1). However, it drastically increased with increasing temperature and exhibited the value similar to those of the epitaxial film and the ceramic sample above 700 K. The thermoelectric figure of merit for 20%-Nb-doped SrTiO3 was found to reach 0.35 at 1000 K irrespective of the grain size.
  • J. Appl. Phys. 100 063717  2006年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • H Hiramatsu, K Ueda, H Ohta, T Kamiya, M Hirano, H Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 87 21 211107  2005年11月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    A hetero p/n junction diode was fabricated by laminating an amorphous n-type InGaZn5O8 layer to a p-type LaCuOSe film epitaxially grown on a MgO (001) substrate. It exhibited a relatively sharp blue electroluminescence (EL) that peaked at similar to 430 nm at room temperature when a forward bias voltage above 8 V was applied. The wavelength and bandwidth of the EL band agreed well with those of the excitonic photoluminescence band in LaCuOSe, which indicates that the EL band originates from the exciton in LaCuOSe. This experiment strongly suggests that layered compounds, LnCuOCh (Ln=lanthanide, Ch=chalcogen), are promising as the light-emitting layer in optoelectronic devices that operate in the blue-ultraviolet region. (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
  • Y Takeda, K Nomura, H Ohta, H Yanagi, T Kamiya, M Hirano, H Hosono
    THIN SOLID FILMS 486 1-2 28 - 32 2005年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Effects of lattice-matched substrates on growth of ZnO epitaxial films were studied. ZnO thin films were grown on single-crystalline InGaO3(ZnO)(6) (IGZO) layers, which have small lattice mismatches of similar to 0.8% and similar to 2.2% in a- and c-axes, respectively. Epitaxial ZnO films were grown with the epitaxial relationship between the ZnO film and the single-crystalline IGZO of [0001](ZnO)//[111](IGZO)//[111](YSZ) and [1120](ZnO)//[1201](IGZO)//[110](YSZ). The use of the lattice-matched substrate and optimization of film microstructure and post-annealing condition led to atomically flat surfaces at maximum process temperatures as low as 700 degrees C. A large Hall electron mobility -80 cm(2) (V s)(-1) (N-e: similar to 2.8 X 10(18) cm(-3)) was obtained even if the film thickness was only 150 nm although comparable mobilities have been reported on films having much larger thicknesses (similar to 1000 nm) fabricated at higher temperatures similar to 1000 degrees C. (c) 2004 Published by Elsevier B.V.
  • A Takagi, K Nomura, H Ohta, H Yanagi, T Kamiya, M Hirano, H Hosono
    THIN SOLID FILMS 486 1-2 38 - 41 2005年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Carrier transport properties in amorphous oxide semiconductor InGaZnO4 (a-IGZO) thin films were investigated in detail using temperature dependence of Hall measurements. It was found that Hall mobility increased distinctly as carrier concentration increased. Unlikely conventional amorphous semiconductors such as a-Si/H, definite normal Hall voltage signals were observed on the films with carrier concentrations (Nc)> 10(16) cm(-3), and Hall mobilities as large as 15 cm(2) (Vs)(-1) were attained in the films with Ne > 10(20) cm(-3). When N, was less than 10 19 cm(-3), the temperature dependence of Hall mobility showed thermally-activated behavior in spite that carrier concentration was independent of temperature. While, it changed to almost degenerate conduction at N-c > 10(18) cm(-3). These behaviors are similar to those observed in single-crystal line IGZO, and are explained by percolation conduction through distributed potential barriers which are formed in the vicinity of the conduction band bottom due to the randomness of the amorphous structure. The effective mass of a-IGZO was estimated to be similar to 0.34 m(e) (m(e) is the mass of free electron) from optical data, which is almost the same as that of crystalline IGZO (-0.32 m(c)). (c) 2004 Published by Elsevier B.V.
  • T Kamiya, K Ueda, H Hiramatsu, H Kamioka, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono
    THIN SOLID FILMS 486 1-2 98 - 103 2005年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Electronic structures of layered oxychalcogenides LaCuOCh (Ch-S, Se, Te) were studied using relativistic ab initio band calculations to understand their optical and electronic properties. Step-like structures terminated with one or two sharp peaks were observed in low-temperature (10 K) optical absorption spectra. Third optical nonlinearity measurements supported that the sharp peaks came from split excitonic levels. The ab initio calculations reproduced well these characteristic structures in the spectra and proved that the step-like optical absorption structures originated from two-dimensional nature of the electronic structures associated with the layered crystal structure of LaCuOCh. The split energies of the excitonic levels were quantitatively explained by spin-orbit interaction in the chalcogen ions. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
  • S Ohta, T Nomura, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono, K Koumoto
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 87 9 092108  2005年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Carrier concentration dependence of the thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT of SrTiO3 at high-temperature (1000 K) is clarified using heavily Nb-doped SrTiO3 epitaxial films, which were grown on insulating (100)-oriented LaAlO3 single-crystalline substrates by a pulsed-laser deposition method. Carrier concentration, Hall mobility, Seebeck coefficient, and thermal conductivity of Nb-doped SrTiO3 epitaxial films were experimentally evaluated at 1000 K with an aid of theoretical analysis. ZT of Nb-doped SrTiO3 increases with Nb concentration and it reaches similar to 0.37 (20% Nb doped), which is the largest value among n-type oxide semiconductors ever reported.
  • Peixin Zhu, Takahiro Takeuchi, Hiromichi Ohta, Won-Seon Seo, Kunihito Koumoto
    Materials Transactions 46 7 1453 - 1455 2005年07月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Na xCoO 2/Co 3O 4 layered nano-composite was prepared through the exfoliation, stacking, and sintering processes. Although almost no electrical conduction was observed at low temperatures, a significant increase in conductivity was observed above 750 K, and it reached 1.2 × 10 2 Scm -1 at 1200 K, which is comparable to that of Na 0.7CoO 2. Seebeck coefficient also largely increased above 750 K. This observation might be associated with the electrical behaviors of Co 3O 4 at high temperature. © 2005 The Thermoelectrics Society of Japan.
  • T Kamiya, S Narushima, H Mizoguchi, K Shimizu, K Ueda, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono
    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 15 6 968 - 974 2005年06月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    p-Type conduction in amorphous oxide was firstly found in zinc rhodium oxide (ZnO-Rh2O3) (Adv. Mater 2003,15,1409), and it is still the only p-type amorphous oxide to date. It was reported that an ordered structure at the nanometer scale was contained and its electronic structure is not clear yet. In this paper, optoelectronic and structural properties are reported in detail for xZnO center dot Rh2O3 thin films (x = 0.5-2.0) in relation to the chemical composition x. All the films exhibit positive Seebeck coefficients, confirming p-type conduction. Local network structure strongly depends on the chemical composition. Transmission electron microscopic observations reveal that lattice-like structures made of edge-sharing RhO6 network exist in 2-3 nm sized grains for rhodium-rich films (x = 0.5 and 1.0), while the zinc-rich film (x = 2) is completely amorphous. This result indicates that excess Zn assists to form an amorphous network in the ZnO-Rh2O3 system since Zn ions tend to form corner-sharing networks. The electronic structure of an all-amorphous oxide p-ZnO center dot Rh2O3/n-InGaZnO4 junction is discussed with reference to electrical characteristics and results of photoelectron emission measurements, suggesting that the p/n junction has large band offsets at the conduction and valence bands, respectively.
  • S Ohta, T Nomura, H Ohta, K Koumoto
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 97 3 034106  2005年02月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Electron and thermal transport properties, i.e., electrical conductivity, carrier concentration, Hall mobility, Seebeck coefficient, thermal conductivity, of heavily La- or Nb-doped SrTiO3 (STO) bulk single crystals were measured at high temperatures, (300-1050 K) to clarify the influence of doping upon the thermoelectric performance of STO. The temperature dependence of Hall mobility and Seebeck coefficient changed at similar to750 K in all samples because the dominant mechanism for carrier scattering changed with increasing temperature from coupled scattering by polar optical phonons and acoustic phonons to mere acoustic phonon scattering. The density-of-states effective mass of Nb-doped STO, which was estimated from the carrier concentration and Seebeck coefficient, was larger than that of La-doped STO. Thermal conductivity of the samples, which was similar to that of undoped STO single crystal, decreased proportionally to T-1, indicating that the phonon conduction takes place predominantly and the electronic contribution to thermal conductivity is negligible. (C) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
  • Effect of boundary plane on the atomic structure of [0001] S7 tilt grain boundaries in ZnO （共著）
    J. Mater. Sci. 40 3067  2005年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • Cryst. Growth Des. 5 143  2005年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • H Ohta, SW Kim, S Ohta, K Koumoto, M Hirano, H Hosono
    CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 5 1 25 - 28 2005年01月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    High-quality epitaxial films of layered cobaltite Na(0.8)3CoO(2) were successfully grown on (0001)-oriented alpha-Al2O3 substrate by reactive solid-phase epitaxy using CoO epitaxial layer and NaHCO3 powder. First, the thermal oxidation of the CoO film into Co3O4 occurs at a lower temperature (300-500 degreesC), then a Na0.83CoO2 epitaxial layer formed via lateral diffusion of Na+ ions together with oxide ions into Co3O4 layers.
  • 大場 史康, 太田 裕道, 細野 秀雄, 佐藤 幸生, 山本 剛久, 幾原 雄一
    まてりあ : 日本金属学会会報 43 12 985 - 985 公益社団法人 日本金属学会 2004年12月20日
  • K Nomura, H Ohta, A Takagi, T Kamiya, M Hirano, H Hosono
    NATURE 432 7016 488 - 492 2004年11月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Transparent electronic devices formed on flexible substrates are expected to meet emerging technological demands where silicon-based electronics cannot provide a solution. Examples of active flexible applications include paper displays and wearable computers(1). So far, mainly flexible devices based on hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H)(2-5) and organic semiconductors(2,6-10) have been investigated. However, the performance of these devices has been insufficient for use as transistors in practical computers and current-driven organic light-emitting diode displays. Fabricating high-performance devices is challenging, owing to a trade-off between processing temperature and device performance. Here, we propose to solve this problem by using a novel semiconducting material-namely, a transparent amorphous oxide semiconductor from the In-Ga-Zn-O system (a-IGZO)-for the active channel in transparent thin-film transistors (TTFTs). The a-IGZO is deposited on polyethylene terephthalate at room temperature and exhibits Hall effect mobilities exceeding 10 cm(2) V-1 s(-1), which is an order of magnitude larger than for hydrogenated amorphous silicon. TTFTs fabricated on polyethylene terephthalate sheets exhibit saturation mobilities of 6-9 cm(2) V-1 s(-1), and device characteristics are stable during repetitive bending of the TTFT sheet.
  • H Hiramatsu, K Ueda, T Kamiya, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono
    JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 108 45 17344 - 17351 2004年11月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    The optical and electronic properties of a wide-gap (similar to3.3 eV) layered oxychalcogenide, La2CdO2Se2, were examined using epitaxial thin films prepared by a reactive solid-phase epitaxy. Two optical absorption peaks due to exciton split by the spin-orbit interaction were observed at 3.43 and 3.61 eV at 10 K near the absorption edge. A sharp ultraviolet photoluminescence was observed even at room temperature, indicating that the free exciton had a large binding energy (estimated value = similar to40 meV) similar to Cu-based, layered oxychalcogenides LnCuOCh (Ln = lanthanide, Ch = chalcogen). The optical properties were compared to those of the Cu-based oxychalcogenides and low-dimensional CdSe-based materials. It is concluded that the two-dimensional crystal structure, which remarkably reduces the bandwidth of the conduction band, is a major origin for the wide band gap. Energy band calculations indicate that the holes are confined in the two-dimensional (CdSe2)(2-) layer, which is most likely responsible for the large binding energy of the exciton.
  • H Hiramatsu, K Ueda, K Takafuji, H Ohta, M Hirano, T Kamiya, H Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING 79 4-6 1517 - 1520 2004年09月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Heteroepitaxial thin films of Cu-based oxychalcogenides, LnCuOCh (Ln = La, Pr and Nd; Ch = mixture of S and Se), were fabricated and their resulting film structures were characterized. A reactive solid-phase epitaxy method successfully yielded heteroepitaxial films on MgO(001) substrates. A high-resolution electron microscopic examination of a LaCuOS film revealed a sharp film-substrate interface. Four-axes high-resolution X-ray diffraction measurements revealed that crystalline lattices in the films are fully relaxed and that the crystallographic orientation is (001)[110] LnCuOCh || (001)[110] MgO. Furthermore, systematic variations in the lattice constant by lanthanide or chalcogen ion substitutions were observed.
  • H Hiramatsu, K Ueda, K Takafuji, H Ohta, M Hirano, T Kamiya, H Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING 79 4-6 1521 - 1523 2004年09月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Electrical and photoluminescence properties were investigated for epitaxial films of layered oxychalcogenides, LnCuOCh (Ln = La, Pr, and Nd, Ch = S or Se). Epitaxial films of Mg 10 at. % doped LaCuOS1-xSex are the first demonstration of degenerate conduction with high hole concentration >10(20) cm(-3) in wide gap p-type semiconductors. Ion substitution varied the excitonic emission energy from 3.21 eV to 2.89 eV while lanthanide and chalcogenide ion substitutions displayed the opposite tendency against cell volume. These unique properties are discussed with respect to the electronic structure originating from the layered crystal structure.
  • K Nomura, T Kamiya, H Ohta, K Ueda, M Hirano, H Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 85 11 1993 - 1995 2004年09月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We have investigated carrier transport in a crystalline oxide semiconductor InGaO3(ZnO)(5) using single-crystalline thin films. When carrier concentration is less than 2x10(18) cm(-3), logarithm of electrical conductivity decreases in proportion to T (-1/4) and room-temperature Hall mobility was as low as similar to1 cm(2)(V s)(-1). When carrier concentration was increased to 4x10(18) cm(-3), the conduction mechanism changed to degenerate conduction and room-temperature Hall mobility was steeply increased to >10 cm(2)(Vs)(-1), showing metal-insulator transition behavior. These results are explained by percolation conduction over distribution of potential barriers formed around conduction band edge. The potential distribution is a consequence of potential modulation originating from random distribution of Ga3+ and Zn2+ ions in the crystal structure of InGaO3(ZnO)(5). (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.
  • F Oba, H Ohta, Y Sato, H Hosono, T Yamamoto, Y Ikuhara
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B 70 12 125415  2004年09月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    The atomic structure of [0001]-tilt grain boundaries in ZnO was investigated using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and atomistic calculations. HRTEM observation was conducted for [0001] fiber-textured ZnO thin films grown on quartz-glass substrates by the pulsed-laser deposition. The [0001]-tilt boundaries observed in the films can be classified into three types: low-angle boundaries composed of irregular dislocation arrays, boundaries with {10 (1) over bar0} facet structures, and near-low Sigma boundaries represented by symmetric periodicity units. The atomic structure of the boundaries is discussed with a focus on a Sigma=7 boundary in conjunction with atomistic calculations and HRTEM image simulations. The Sigma=7 boundary consists of multiple structural units that are very similar to the core structures of edge dislocations. Straight or zigzag arrangements of the dislocationlike structural units constitute other high-angle boundaries with symmetric and {10 (1) over bar0} facet structures as well. It is suggested that [0001]-tilt boundaries in ZnO are generally described as an array of the dislocationlike units.
  • H Hiramatsu, K Ueda, K Takafuji, H Ohta, M Hirano, T Kamiya, H Hosono
    JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH 19 7 2137 - 2143 2004年07月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Processes and preparation conditions for growing epitaxial thin films of Cu-based, layered oxychalcogenides LnCuOCh (Ln = La, Ce, Pr or Nd; Ch = S,,Se, or Se1-yTey) are reported. Epitaxial thin films on MgO (001) substrates were prepared by a reactive solid-phase epitaxy method. Four-axes high-resolution x-ray diffraction measurements revealed that the crystallographic orientation is (001)[110] LnCuOCh parallel to (001)[110] MgO and the internal stress of the crystalline lattices in the films are relaxed during thermal-annealing process of the reactive solid-phase epitaxy. Furthermore, except for CeCuOS, systematic variations in the lattice constant by chalcogen or lanthanide ion substitutions were observed. These results demonstrated that the reactive solid-phase epitaxy is an efficient technique for fabricating LnCuOCh epitaxial films.
  • T Kamiya, H Ohta, H Hiramatsu, K Hayashi, K Nomura, S Matsuishi, K Ueda, M Hirano, H Hosono
    MICROELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 73-4 620 - 626 2004年06月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Nanostructures naturally formed in oxide semiconductor crystals are discussed in relation to their electronic structure and properties. Three different crystals are studied: (i) layered oxychalcogenides LnCuOCh (Ln = lanthanide, Ch = chalcogen), (ii) homologous series layered oxides RMO3(ZnO)(m) (R = In, Lu etc., M = In, Ga etc., m = integer), and (iii) nanoporous crystal 12CaO7 . Al2O3 (C12A7). Coexistence of moderately large mobility, intense photoluminescence arising from room-temperature exciton and high-density hole is explained by a natural modulation doping structure in LnCuOCh. C12A7 exhibits different properties by replacing free O2- ions anions clathrated in its subnanometer-sized cages with O-, H-, and electron. The electronic structures of the clathrated anions were investigated by ab initio calculations and discussed in terms of possible quantum structures and applications. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
  • K Nomura, H Ohta, K Ueda, T Kamiya, M Orita, M Hirano, T Suzuki, C Honjyo, Y Ikuhara, H Hosono
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 95 10 5532 - 5539 2004年05月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    The growth mechanism for a single-crystalline film of InGaO3(ZnO)(5) (IGZO) on a (111)-oriented yttria-stabilized-zirconia substrate by reactive solid-phase epitaxy was studied by high-resolution x-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and atomic force microscopy. We focused on the role of the 2-nm-thick ZnO epitaxial layer during the structural evolution of the 200-nm-thick polycrystalline- (poly-) IGZO layer while thermal annealing. When a thin ZnO epitaxial layer was formed before depositing the poly-IGZO layer, thin single-crystalline epitaxial IGZO seeds were initially formed only on the substrate surface or on the thin ZnO epitaxial layer through a solid-phase reaction between the ZnO epitaxial layer and the poly-IGZO layer. A single-crystalline IGZO layer grew from the IGZO seeds toward the top surface of the film along with a much faster lateral grain growth, which formed a large-area single-crystalline IGZO film with an atomically flat terraced and stepped surface. On the other hand, an epitaxial film was not obtained unless a ZnO epitaxial layer was used, demonstrating that the ZnO epitaxial layer plays a crucial role as the seed for subsequent crystallite growth and a template for determining the crystallographic orientation. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.
  • K Ueda, H Hiramatsu, H Ohta, M Hirano, T Kamiya, H Hosono
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B 69 15 155305  2004年04月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    LnCuOCh (Ln=lanthanide, Ch=chalcogen) layered oxychalcogenides are wide-gap p-type semiconductors composed of alternately stacked (Ln(2)O(2))(2+) oxide layers and (Cu(2)Ch(2))(2-) chalcogenide layers. Energy band calculations revealed that Cu-Ch hybridized bands only spread in the (Cu(2)Ch(2))(2-) layers, which suggests that hole carriers in these bands are confined by the potential barriers formed by the (Ln(2)O(2))(2+) layers. Stepwise absorption spectra of a series of LnCuOCh experimentally verified that an exciton in the (Cu(2)Ch(2))(2-) layers shows a two-dimensional behavior. These theoretical and experimental results indicate that LnCuOCh has "natural multiple quantum wells" built into its layered structure.
  • K Nomura, H Ohta, HA Masahiro, K Ueda, T Kamiya, M Hirano, H Hosono
    MICROELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 72 1-4 294 - 298 2004年04月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MISFETs) were fabricated using a n-type transparent oxide semiconductor, InGaO3(ZnO)(5), single-crystalline layer as n-channel. High-k dielectric materials, amorphous Al2Ox and HfOx, were examined for gate insulators. The deposition and post-annealing conditions of the gate insulators were optimized for leakage current and MISFET performances. The MISFETs exhibited good performances such as normally off characteristics, an on/off current ratio as large as 10(5) and insensitivity to visible light. A field-effect mobility for oxide MISFETs (similar to80 cm(2) V-1 s(-1)) was obtained when amorphous HfOx was used for gate insulator. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
  • T Kamiya, H Ohta, M Kamiya, K Nomura, K Ueda, M Hirano, H Hosono
    JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH 19 3 913 - 920 2004年03月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Li-doped NiO epitaxial films with high electrical conductivity and atomically flat stepped surfaces were fabricated by a combined technique of pulsed laser deposition and subsequent annealing. It was determined that subsequently annealing at temperatures as low as 600degreesC significantly decreased electrical conductivity due to Li evaporation when the film surface was not protected from Li evaporation. To suppress Li evaporation, a yttria-stabilized-zironia plate was used to cover the film surface, which raised the annealing temperature up to 1300degreesC while maintaining a high Li concentration and electrical conductivity. Thermally annealing at this temperature also improved crystal quality and formed epitaxial films with atomically flat stepped surfaces. The films were single crystalline at least in observation areas, 10 Pm x 10 mum. A reasonably large Hall mobility approximately 0.05 cm(2)/Vs similar to that reported for bulk single-crystal NiO and a visible-light transmission in excess of 75% were obtained on 120-nm-thick films. Although annealing at higher temperatures such as 1400degreesC can further improve the structural and optical properties, the Li concentration in the films was decreased to < 3% of the as-deposited film.
  • H Hiramatsu, H Ohta, T Suzuki, C Honjo, Y Ikuhara, K Ueda, T Kamiya, M Hirano, H Hosono
    CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 4 2 301 - 307 2004年03月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    A unique epitaxial growth method, reactive solid-phase epitaxy, was used to fabricate heteroepitaxial thin films of LaCuOS, a transparent p-type semiconductor with layered structure. The epitaxial growth mechanism is examined through microscopic observations. A thin metallic Cu layer deposited between the amorphous LaCuOS (a-LaCuOS) and the yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) single-crystal substrate before thermally annealing is a key to realizing the epitaxial LaCuOS films in this process. To grow the epitaxial films, it is critical for the Cu layer to have a discontinuous structure with triple junctions among the Cu, a-LaCuOS layer, and the YSZ substrate. The Cu layer is needed to create seed grains for the epitaxial LaCuOS at the junctions. The resulting seed grains work as an epitaxy template for subsequent epitaxial growth from the substrate to the film's top surface, and high temperatures such as 1000 degreesC are necessary to completely convert the a-LaCuOS layer to an epitaxial layer.
  • H Kamioka, H Hiramatsu, H Ohta, M Hirano, K Ueda, T Kamiya, H Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 84 6 879 - 881 2004年02月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We have studied the third-order optical nonlinearity (chi((3))) of epitaxial thin films of layered compounds LaCuOS and LaCuOSe at room temperature by a spectrally resolved degenerative four-wave mixing technique with femtosecond time resolution. The chi((3)) values in both films are sharply resonant to optical absorption bands in the ultraviolet (UV) light region due to room-temperature exciton. The peak values are evaluated to be as large as 2-4x10(-9) esu with a fast time response of 250-300 fs. These findings indicate that LaCuOS and LaCuOSe are promising materials for emerging optical nonlinear devices that operate in the UV light region compatible for GaN-based lasers. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.
  • H Ohta, T Kambayashi, K Nomura, M Hirano, K Ishikawa, H Takezoe, H Hosono
    ADVANCED MATERIALS 16 4 312 - + 2004年02月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    An improved-performance transparent organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) is described, which has a vanadyl-phthalocyanine (VOPc) film as an active p-channel, lattice-matched (Sc0.7Y0.3)(2)O-3 film as a high-k gate dielectric, and atomically flat indium tin oxide (ITO) film as the bottom contact (see Figure). These features-lattice matching and atomic flatness-are expected to lead to further improvements in transparent OTFTs.
  • Takeo Sasaki, Katsuyuki Matsunaga, Hiromichi Ohta, Hideo Hosono, Takahisa Yamamoto, Yuichi Ikuhara
    Materials Transactions 45 7 2137 - 2143 2004年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Thin Ni films were deposited on the (111) surface of YSZ at 1073 K by a pulsed laser deposition technique. The interfacial atomic structure of Ni/YSZ was investigated by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). It was found that Ni was epitaxially oriented to the YSZ surface, and the following orientation relationship (OR) was observed: (111)Ni ∥ (111)YSZ, ∥ (11̄0)Ni, [11̄0]YSZ · Geometrical coherency of the Ni/YSZ system was also evaluated by the coincidence of reciprocal lattice points (CRLP) method. It was found that the most coherent OR predicted by CRLP method was (705)Ni ∥ (111)YSZ, [01̄0]Ni [11̄0]YSZ, which was not consistent with the experimentally observed OR. To understand the detailed atomic structure. HRTEM image simulations were performed. However, simulated images based on both O-terminated and Zr-terminated interface models were quite similar to the experimental image, and thus it was hard to determine which model is comparable with the actual interface only by the HRTEM image simulations. In order to clarify the termination layer at the interface, electronic structures of the Ni/YSZ interface were investigated by electron energy-loss spectroscopy. It was found that significant differences were observed in O-K edge spectra between the interface and the YSZ crystal interior, and the spectrum from the interface showed similar features to the reference spectrum of bulk NiO. This indicates that the Ni-O interaction occurs at the interface to terminate the oxygen {111} plane of YSZ at the Ni/YSZ interface. In addition, the density of Ni-O bonds across the interface in the experimental OR was larger than that in the most coherent OR predicted by CRLP method, which also suggests that the on-top Ni-O bonds stabilize the Ni/YSZ(111) interface.
  • H Hiramatsu, K Ueda, T Kamiya, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono
    JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY 14 19 2946 - 2950 2004年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    A single-phase La2CdO2Se2 powder was successfully synthesized and its optical and electrical properties were examined. Single-phase La2CdO2Se2 was obtained by preserving the stoichiometric composition of the initial ingredients, especially Cd and Se, during the sintering process. Exhibiting a yellowish white color, the synthesized sample has a large optical bandgap of similar to3.3 eV. The crystal structure, refined by a Rietveld method taking into account the site occupancies and isotropic thermal vibration parameters of Cd and Se, indicates that La2CdO2Se2 belongs to space group P4(2)/nmc. Instability against Cd or Se vacancy formation makes it difficult to generate carriers through vacancies or allo-valent ions doping, leading to electrical insulating properties both in as-prepared and intentionally doped La2CdO2Se2 form.
  • T Kamiya, K Ueda, H Hiramatsu, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono
    INTEGRATION OF ADVANCED MICRO-AND NANOELECTRONIC DEVICES-CRITICAL ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS 811 457 - 462 2004年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Electronic structures of layered oxychalcogenides, LaCuOCh (Ch=S, Se, Te) and La2CdO2Se2, were studied using ab-initio band calculations in relation to their optical and electronic properties. It was found that the dispersions of the top valence bands are much smaller in F-Z direction than in F-X direction, indicating that the electronic structure is highly two-dimensional, and that holes are confined in the CuCh or CdSe layers. The two-dimensional electronic structure is supported experimentally by staircase-like structure observed in optical absorption spectra at 10 K associated with two excitonic absorption peaks split by spin-orbit interaction of Ch ions. La2CdO2Se2 has the largest bandgap due to the two-dimensional network structure of CdSe tetrahedra.
  • H Ohta, M Kamiya, T Kamaiya, M Hirano, H Hosono
    THIN SOLID FILMS 445 2 317 - 321 2003年12月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    A transparent ultraviolet (UV)-detector was fabricated using a high-quality pn-heterojunction diode composed of transparent oxide semiconductors, p-type NiO and n-type ZnO, and its UV-response was measured at room temperature. Transparent tri-layered oxide films of ZnO/NiO/ITO were heteroepitaxially grown on an YSZ (1 1 1) substrate by a pulsed-laser-deposition combined with a solid-phase-epitaxy technique and they were processed to fabricate a p-NiO/n-ZnO diode. The diodes exhibited a clear rectifying I-V characteristic with an ideality factor of similar to2 and a forward threshold voltage of similar to1 V. Although the photoresponsivity was fairly weak at the zero bias voltage, it was enhanced up to similar to0.3 AW(-1) by applying a reverse bias of -6 V under an irradiation of 360-nm light, which is comparable to that of commercial devices. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
  • K Nomura, H Ohta, K Ueda, T Kamiya, M Hirano, H Hosono
    THIN SOLID FILMS 445 2 322 - 326 2003年12月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We have investigated the characteristics of transparent metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MISFETs) fabricated using InGaO3(ZnO)(m) (m = integer) single-crystalline thin films as n-channel layers and amorphous alumina as gate insulator films. The MISFETs exhibit good characteristics such as insensitivity to visible light illumination, off-current as low as similar to1 nA with a positive threshold voltage of similar to3 V and on/off current ratio of 10(5). The field-effect mobility increased from similar to1 to similar to10 cm(2) (V s)(-1) as the m-value increased. Room temperature Hall mobility also increased. However, unexpectedly these values were lower than the field-effect mobility. It is explained by existence of shallow localized state in the homologous compounds. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
  • H Hiramatsu, K Ueda, H Ohta, M Hirano, T Kamiya, H Hosono
    Thin Solid Films 445 2 304 - 308 2003年12月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Hole transport and optical properties were investigated on undoped and Mg-doped LaCuOS1-xSex (x = 0-1) epitaxial films. Both electrical conductivity and Hall mobility were found to increase monotonously with increasing Se content in the films. The increase in Hall mobility is considered to be associated with the increase in valence band dispersion. Mg ion doping increased hole concentrations in the undoped films by an order of magnitude to similar to2 x 10(20) cm(-3), while Mg doping reduced mobility to merely half that of undoped films. The,results suggest that hole scattering due to Mg impurity ions is suppressed by natural modulation doping originating from the layered structure of LaCuOS1-xSex. Hole concentrations showed no temperature dependence, indicating degenerate conduction. The largest value for conductivity, 140 S cm(-1), was obtained with Mg-doped LaCuOSe epitaxial film. Accompanying characteristics included moderately high optical transparency in the visible region and blue photoluminescence. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
  • H Hiramatsu, K Ueda, K Takafuji, H Ohta, M Hirano, T Kamiya, H Hosono
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 94 9 5805 - 5808 2003年11月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    The optical spectroscopic properties of layered oxychalcogenide semiconductors LnCuOCh (Ln=La, Pr, and Nd; Ch=S or Se) on epitaxial films were thoroughly investigated near the fundamental energy band edges. Free exciton emissions were observed for all the films between 300 and similar to30 K. In addition, a sharp emission line, which was attributed to bound excitons, appeared below similar to80 K. The free exciton energy showed a nonmonotonic relationship with lattice constant and was dependent on lanthanide and chalcogen ion substitutions. These results imply that the exciton was confined to the (Cu(2)Ch(2))(2-) layer. Anionic and cationic substitutions tune the emission energy at 300 K from 3.21 to 2.89 eV and provide a way to engineer the electronic structure in light-emitting devices. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.
  • K Ueda, K Takafuji, H Hiramatsu, H Ohta, T Kamiya, M Hirano, H Hosono
    CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS 15 19 3692 - 3695 2003年09月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    A series of layered oxysulfides, LnCuOS (Ln = Lasimilar toNd), was studied to examine the influence of these lanthanide ions on their optical and electrical transport properties. PrCuOS and NdCuOS showed wide-gap p-type semiconducting properties similar to LaCuOS, which is a p-type semiconductor with an energy gap of 3.1 eV. A sharp photoluminescence peak near the absorption edge, which originates from excitons, was observed in LnCuOS (Ln = La, Pr, and Nd), indicating that these lanthanide ions do not influence the fundamental optical properties and excitons are confined in (Cu2S2)(2-) sulfide layers sandwiched between (Ln(2)O(2))(2+) oxide layers. On the other hand, CeCuOS showed p-type degenerate semiconducting behavior and its color was black. The electronic structures of LnCuOS (Ln = Lasimilar toNd) were investigated by ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy and inverse photoemission spectroscopy to understand these differences derived from the lanthanide ions. Although no remarkable difference in the electronic structures was found among LnCuOS (Ln = Lasimilar toNd), only an inverse photoemission spectrum of CeCuOS clearly showed an unoccupied band near the Fermi level in the conduction band. It is considered that the formation of this unoccupied band at the conduction band minimum is responsible for the unique electrical and optical features of CeCuOS.
  • S Narushima, H Mizoguchi, K Shimizu, K Ueda, H Ohta, M Hirano, T Kamiya, H Hosono
    ADVANCED MATERIALS 15 17 1409 - 1413 2003年09月 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • H Ohta, M Hirano, K Nakahara, H Maruta, T Tanabe, M Kamiya, T Kamiya, H Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 83 5 1029 - 1031 2003年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Transparent trilayered oxide films of ZnO/NiO/indium tin oxide were heteroepitaxially grown on a YSZ (111) substrate by pulsed-laser deposition combined with a solid-phase-epitaxy technique, and were processed to fabricate a p-NiO/n-ZnO diode. The diode exhibited a clear rectifying I-V characteristic with an ideality factor of similar to2 and a forward threshold voltage of similar to1 V. Although the photoresponsivity was fairly weak at the zero-bias voltage, it was enhanced up to similar to0.3 A W-1 through the application of a reverse bias of -6 V under the irradiation of 360 nm light, a value comparable to that of commercial devices. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.
  • H Ohta, T Kambayashi, M Hirano, H Hoshi, K Ishikawa, H Takezoe, H Hosono
    ADVANCED MATERIALS 15 15 1258 - + 2003年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    The lateral growth of an organic molecule on a transparent conductive substrate-important for molecular electronics-is demonstrated using vanadyl phthalocyanine (VOPc) on epitaxial indium tin oxide (ITO) film with an atomically flat and stepped surface. The occurrence of two-dimensional lateral growth is proved by the heights of the square-shaped domains of VOPc (see Figure) stacked parallel to the ITO substrate.
  • K Nomura, H Ohta, K Ueda, T Kamiya, M Hirano, H Hosono
    SCIENCE 300 5623 1269 - 1272 2003年05月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We report the fabrication of transparent field-effect transistors using a single-crystalline thin-film transparent oxide semiconductor, InGaO3(ZnO)(5), as an electron channel and amorphous hafnium oxide as a gate insulator. The device exhibits an on-to-off current ratio of similar to10(6) and a field-effect mobility of similar to80 square centimeters per volt per second at room temperature, with operation insensitive to visible light irradiation. The result provides a step toward the realization of transparent electronics for next-generation optoelectronics.
  • H Hiramatsu, K Ueda, H Ohta, M Hirano, T Kamiya, H Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 82 7 1048 - 1050 2003年02月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Epitaxial films of LaCuOS1-xSex (x=0-1) solid solution were grown on MgO (001) substrates and their electrical and optical properties were examined. Sharp emission due to room-temperature exciton with binding energy of similar to50 meV is observed for all x values. Hall mobility becomes large with an increase in the Se content and it reaches 8.0 cm(2)V(-1)s(-1) in LaCuOSe, a comparable value to that of p-type GaN:Mg. Doping of Mg2+ ions at La3+ sites enhances a hole concentration up to 2.2x10(20) cm(-3), while maintaining the Hall mobility as large as 4.0 cm(2)V(-1)s(-1). Consequently, a degenerate p-type electrical conduction with a conductivity of 140 S cm(-1) was achieved. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.
  • H Ohta, H Mizoguchi, M Hirano, S Narushima, T Kamiya, H Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 82 5 823 - 825 2003年02月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    A reactive solid-phase epitaxy technique was applied to fabricate all-oxide transparent p-n heterojunctions composed of p-ZnRh2O4 and n-ZnO thin layers. Polycrystalline ZnRh2O4 was deposited on a ZnO epitaxial layer at room temperature. Thermal annealing of the bilayer sample at 950 degreesC in air converts the polycrystalline ZnRh2O4 layer to an epitaxial single-crystalline layer. The resultant p-n heterojunctions have an abrupt interface and exhibit a distinct rectifying I-V characteristic. The threshold voltage is similar to2 V, agreeing well with the band-gap energy of ZnRh2O4. It also exhibits photovoltage with UV-light illumination, which originates mainly from the n-ZnO layer. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.
  • H Ohta, K Nomura, M Orita, M Hirano, K Ueda, T Suzuki, Y Ikuhara, H Hosono
    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 13 2 139 - 144 2003年02月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Single-crystalline thin films of the homologous series InGaO3(ZnO)(m) (where m is an integer) are fabricated by the reactive solid-phase epitaxy (R-SPE) method. Specifically, the role of ZnO as epitaxial initiator layer for the growth mechanism is clarified High-temperature annealing of bilayer films consisting of an amorphous InGaO3(ZnO)(5) layer deposited at room temperature and an, epitaxial ZnO layer on yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) substrate allows for the growth of single-crystalline film with controlled chemical composition. The epitaxial ZnO thin layer plays an essential role in determining the crystallographic orientation, while the ratio of the thickness of both layers controls the film composition.
  • Takeo Sasaki, Katsuyuki Matsunaga, Hiromichi Ohta, Hideo Hosono, Takahisa Yamamoto, Yuichi Ikuhara
    SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS 4 6 575 - 584 2003年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Interfacial atomic structures of Cu/Al2O3(0001) and Cu/Al2O3(11 (2) over bar0) systems prepared by a pulsed-laser deposition technique have been characterized by using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). It was found that Cu metals were epitaxially oriented to the surface of Al2O3 substrates, and the following orientation relationships (ORs) were found to be formed: (111)(Cu)//(0001)Al2O3, [1 (1) over bar0](Cu)//[1 (1) over bar 00]Al2O3 in the Cu/Al2O3(0001) interface and (001)(Cu)//(11 (2) over bar0)Al2O3, [1 (1) over bar0](Cu)//[0001]Al2O3 in the Cu/Al2O3(11 (2) over bar0) interface. Geometrical coherency of the Cu/Al2O3 system has been evaluated by the coincidence of reciprocal lattice points method, and the result showed that the most coherent ORs were (111)(Cu)//(0001)Al2O3, [11 (2) over bar](Cu)//[1 (1) over bar 00]Al2O3 and (1 (1) over bar0)(Cu)//(11 (2) over bar0)Al2O3, [111](Cu)//[0001]Al2O3, which are equivalent to each other. These ORs were not consistent with the experimentally observed ORs, and it was possible that crucial factors to determine the ORs between Cu and Al2O3 were not only geometrical coherency, but also other factors such as chemical bonding states. Therefore, to understand the nature of the interface atomic structures, the electronic structures of the Cu/Al2O3 interfaces have been investigated by electron energy-loss spectroscopy. It was found that the pre-edge at the lower energy part of the main peak appeared in the OK edge spectra at the interface region in both the Cu/Al2O3(0001) and Cu/Al2O3(11 (2) over bar0) systems. This indicates the existence of Cu-O interactions at the interface. In fact, HRTEM simulation images based on O-terminated interface models agreed well with the experimental images, indicating that O-terminated interfaces were formed in both systems. Since the overlapped Cu atomic density in the experimental ORs were larger than that in the most coherent OR, it is considered that the on-top Cu-O bonds stabilize the O-terminated Cu/Al2O3 interfaces. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
  • Thin Solid Films 445 317  2003年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • H Hosono, H Ohta, M Orita, K Ueda, M Hirano
    VACUUM 66 3-4 419 - 425 2002年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    The recent advancement of transparent conductive oxide thin films is reviewed using our strategy. Topics focused are the lowest resistive indium tin oxide films, deep-ultraviolet (deep-UV) transparent conductive oxides (TCO) thin film, p-n homo junction based on bipolar CuInO2, and UV-light emitting diode based on p-n hetero-junction. A frontier of transparent oxide semiconductors is opening as a consequence of discovery of p-type TCO. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
  • H Hiramatsu, K Ueda, H Ohta, M Orita, M Hirano, H Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 81 4 598 - 600 2002年07月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    High-quality epitaxial films of LaCuOS, a wide-gap p-type semiconductor, are grown on yittria-stabilized-zirconia (001) or MgO (001) single-crystal substrates by a unique method. Postannealing of a bilayer film composed of an extremely thin metallic copper layer and an amorphous LaCuOS layer at 1000 degreesC results in an epitaxially grown LaCuOS thin film. This thin copper layer with high orientation, which likely acts as an epitaxial initiator, is essential for epitaxial growth. The resulting epitaxial films exhibit relatively intense ultraviolet emission associated with excitons at room temperature, confirming the high crystal quality of the films. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
  • H Hiramatsu, K Ueda, H Ohta, M Orita, M Hirano, H Hosono
    THIN SOLID FILMS 411 1 125 - 128 2002年05月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Single phase thin films of a layered oxysulfide, (La1-xSrxO)CuS (x = 0, and 0.03), were prepared by r.f. sputtering technique followed by a post-annealing treatment in an evacuated silica tube containing a small amount of (LaO)CuS powder. Key growth parameters for obtaining a single-phase film were the r.f. power and the substrate temperature in r.f. sputtering under an H,S atmosphere. ICP and FP-XRF measurements revealed that the chemical compositions of post-annealed films prepared under optimum conditions were in significant agreement with those of the target. Sr2+ ion doping in the films was performed by adding SrS in the targets, which enhanced the p-type electrical conductivity from 6.4x10(-5) (x=0) to 20 S cm(-1) (x=0.03). Optical transmission spectra of the films showed high optical transmission (>60%) in the visible-near IR region. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
  • K Nomura, H Ohta, K Ueda, M Orita, M Hirano, H Hosono
    THIN SOLID FILMS 411 1 147 - 151 2002年05月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Single crystalline thin films of ln(2)O(3)(ZnO)(5) were grown by a novel solid state diffusion technique using a ZnO epitaxial layer as solid template. Crystal quality of the film was evaluated by high-resolution X-ray diffraction (HR-XRD) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Multilayered films composed of amorphous In2O3(ZnO)(4) and epitaxial ZnO were grown on (111) yttrium-stabilized-zirconia (YSZ) by a pulsed-laser-deposition method, followed by annealing the films fully covered by YSZ plate at 1450 degreesC in air. HR-XRD measurement revealed In2O3(ZnO)(5) to be a single crystalline film. Sharp diffraction peaks of (0001) due to superlattices were seen in the out-of-plane HR-XRD pattern. Out-of-plane and in-plane orientations of the film and the substrate were In2O3(ZnO)(5) (0001)//YSZ (111) and In2O3(ZnO)(5) (11 (2) over bar0)//YSZ(1 (1) over bar0), respectively Step and terrace structure was clearly observed in an AFM image of the In2O3(ZnO)(5) film. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
  • M Orita, H Hiramatsu, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono
    THIN SOLID FILMS 411 1 134 - 139 2002年05月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    beta-Ga2O3 is a unique oxide that exhibits deep ultraviolet transparency as well as good electric conductivity when dopants are introduced. With the purpose of realizing highly conductive films using this material, tin doped Ga2O3 films were deposited on Al2O3 (0001) substrates by the pulsed laser deposition method. ((2) over bar 01) oriented beta-phase films were grown at substrate temperatures of between 380 degreesC and 435 degreesC, and deep ultraviolet transparent films with a conductivity as high as 8.2 S cm(-1) were obtained at 380 degreesC under laser ablation with a low repetition rate of 1 Hz. With a further increase in the deposition temperature, the films underwent a crystalline phase transition, accompanied by an abrupt decrease in conductivity. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V All rights reserved.
  • H Hosono, H Ohta, K Hayashi, M Orita, M Hirano
    JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH 237 496 - 502 2002年04月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    A near-UV emitting diode was fabricated by successive heteroepitaxial growth of In2O3:Sn(ITO), n-electrode, n-ZnO, and p-SrCu2O2 (SCO) on an extremely flat surface of yttria-stabilized ZrO2 single crystalline substrate using a pulsed-laser deposition technique. Upon current injection at room temperature, the resulting diode emitted near-UV light with a peak at 382 nm. The threshold voltage for emission was similar to 3V, which is in agreement with the energy difference between the ZnO donor level and the SCO acceptor level. The epitaxial relationship between SCO and ZnO depends on the deposition temperature of SCO on ZnO. The inhomogeneity of the SCO crystal was improved by raising the deposition temperature from 350degreesC to 600degreesC. The threshold Current for near-UV emission from the diode fabricated by deposition of the SCO film at 600degreesC was reduced to similar to 15 of that at 350degreesC. A reason why this heteroepitaxial growth occurs for oxides with large lattice misfit is explained in terms of the high ionicity of chemical bonds in oxides. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
  • H Ohta, M Orita, M Hirano, H Hosono
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 91 6 3547 - 3550 2002年03月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Highly electrically conductive (resistivity: 1x10(-4) Omega cm) indium tin oxide (ITO) thin films were grown heteroepitaxially on (111) and (100) surfaces of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) at a growth temperature of 900 degreesC using a pulsed-laser deposition technique, and their crystal quality and surface morphology were evaluated by using high-resolution x-ray diffraction and an atomic force microscope. Higher growth temperature, the use of a cleaved surface as a substrate, and an increase in oxygen pressure are essential to fabricate an ITO thin film with an atomically flat surface. The full width at half maximum of out-of-plane x-ray rocking curves of ITO (222) grown on YSZ (111) and of ITO (400) on YSZ (100) were 54 and 720 arcseconds, respectively, which indicates that (111)-oriented ITO films exhibited higher crystal quality than (100)-oriented ITO films. The ITO film was grown on YSZ (111) by the three-dimensional spiral growth mode, with flat terraces and steps corresponding to (222) plane spacing of 0.293 nm, and the grain size was reduced with increasing oxygen pressure during ITO film growth, to improve overall surface flatness. On the other hand, only a columnar structure was observed in the (100)-oriented ITO film surface. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Masahiro Orita, Masahiro Hirano, Iwao Yagi, Kazushige Ueda, Hideo Hosono
    Journal of Applied Physics 91 5 3074 - 3078 2002年02月15日 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    The electronic structure of SrCu2O2, a wide gap (∼3.3 eV) p-type oxide semiconductor, was examined by photoelectron and optical spectroscopy. The spectroscopy results were compared with the energy band structure calculated by the local density approximation method to clarify the origins of p-type conductivity in this material. Despite the significant difference in band gap energy, the basic electronic structure around the band gap region was found to be quite similar to that of Cu2O. Thus, the 3d-4sp orbital of Cu+ ion is hybridized with the 2p orbital of ligand O2- ions due to the covalency of Cu-O bonds, to form states near the valence band maximum the conduction band minimum is predominantly composed of the hybridized orbital of Cu 4sp and O 2p, forming the direct band gap at Γ point. A sharp absorption band observed near the fundamental absorption edge is likely attributable to an exciton. Although the corresponding exciton emission was not observed near the absorption edge, a blue-green emission band (Stokes shift of ∼1 eV) was observed at ∼2.47 eV. The emission is presumably attributable to intra-atomic transitions of Cu+, partially allowed by p-orbital mixing into s and d orbitals. © 2002 American Institute of Physics.
  • M Miyakawa, R Noshiro, T Ogawa, K Ueda, H Kawazoe, H Ohta, M Orita, M Hirano, H Hosono
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 91 4 2112 - 2117 2002年02月 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Epitaxial thin films of MgIn2O4 were grown on MgO(100) single-crystal substrates through the pulsed laser deposition technique. X-ray diffraction measurements revealed film orientations MgIn2O4(h00)//MgO(h00) and MgIn2O4(0k0)//MgO(0k0), respectively. Proton implantation was applied to generate carrier electrons in the films. The electrical conductivity of the as-deposited films is below similar to10(-7) S cm(-1) at room temperature. The maximum conductivity of similar to70 S cm(-1) was obtained by the implantation. Hall voltage measurements revealed that H+ implantation causes carrier generation in proportion to H+ fluence without reduction of electron mobility. Following the post-annealing process resulted in further enhancement of the conductivity in each H+-implanted film, as conductivity and generation efficiency were found to increase up to similar to2x10(2) S cm(-1) and similar to95% at the maximum, respectively. This differs from the behavior of polycrystalline films in which conductivity decreased by post-annealing due to a decrease in the Hall mobility of electrons. Thus it is concluded that crystal quality is crucial for heavy carrier doping by ion implantation, especially when utilizing post-annealing treatments to enhance the carrier generation efficiency without reduction of the Hall mobility. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
  • H Hiramatsu, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono
    SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS 124 10-11 411 - 415 2002年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Zinc sulfide (ZnS) films were grown on transparent yittria-stabilized-zirconia (YSZ) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. Deposition at 500 degreesC in a H2S/Ar mixed gas atmosphere of 10 Pa on YSZ(111) substrate resulted in epitaxial growth of a single-phase cubic transparent ZnS film. X-ray reciprocal space mappings and optical spectroscopy clearly indicate that the film is composed of single-phase zinc blende. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
  • H Yanagi, K Ueda, H Ohta, M Orita, M Hirano, H Hosono
    SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS 121 1 15 - 17 2002年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    A transparent homojunction was fabricated with a successive deposition of p- and n-type electronic conductive CuInO2 delafossite-type oxide films by a pulsed laser deposition technique. Each conductivity was realized by doping of Sn4+ ions as donor or Ca2+ ions as acceptor ions. The diode, composed of the p-n homojunction sandwiched by ITO films as anode and cathode, exhibits rectifying characteristics with a turn-on voltage of similar to1.8 V, keeping an optical transmission of 60%-80% in the visible region (its total thickness: 1.8 mum). (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
  • M. Orita, H. Ohta, H. Hiramatsu, M. Hirano, S. Den, M. Sasaki, T. Katagiri, H. Mimura, H. Hosono
    Review of Scientific Instruments 72 8 3340 - 3343 2001年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    A pulsed laser deposition system capable of raising substrate temperatures up to 1500°C in oxygen atmosphere has been developed to grow oxide thin films with excellent crystalline quality. The high temperature is achieved by condensation onto a substrate of infrared light emitted from a halogen lamp through a SiO2 rod serving as an optical guide. Deposition temperatures are regulated ranging from 1500 to 150°C, under a partial oxygen pressure from 100 to 5 × 10-6Pa. An appropriate thermal insulation between the substrate holder and the surrounding components suppresses the heat flow inbetween, leading to a smooth rotation of the substrate holder and preventing the mechanical components from being oxidized. A high-precision five-axis alignment mechanism equipped with a substrate manipulator allows for the development of an application in coaxial impact-collision ion scattering spectroscopy. As a demonstrative experiment, highly oriented Ga2O3 films, which are useful as deep ultraviolet transparent semiconductors, have been deposited on an Al2O3 (0001) single crystal substrate at 1000°C under an oxygen pressure of 5 × 10-5Pa. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.
  • 太田 裕道, 折田 政寛, 平野 正浩, 細野 秀雄
    表面科学 22 7 419 - 424 The Surface Science Society of Japan 2001年07月10日 
    Near-UV emitting diodes composed of wide band gap oxide semiconductors, p-SrCu2O2 and n-ZnO heterojunctions, were fabricated and their emission properties were investigated. Single crystal ITO thin films with very flat surfaces were grown using PLD on YSZ substrates, and ZnO films were heteroepitaxially grown on the ITO surfaces. p-SrCu2O2(112) was preferentially grown on ZnO(0001) at 350oC, while the preferential plane was changed into the (100) when the temperature was increased to 600oC. This device exhibited rectifying I-V characteristics inherent to p-n junction whose turn-on voltage was about 3 V. A relatively sharp electro-luminescence band centered at 382 nm was generated by applying the forward bias voltage larger than the turn-on voltage of 3 V. The red shift in the EL peak was noticed from that of photo-luminescence (377 nm), which was most likely due to the difference in the excited state density between the emission processes. The EL band is attributed to transition in ZnO, probably to that associated with electron-hole plasma. UV-LED performance characteristics such as threshold current and conversion efficiency was improved with higher SrCu2O2 deposition temperatures.
  • M Orita, H Ohta, M Hirano, S Narushima, H Hosono
    PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE B-PHYSICS OF CONDENSED MATTER STATISTICAL MECHANICS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES 81 5 501 - 515 2001年05月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    With the purpose of creating ZnO-based amorphous transparent conductors, a range of amorphous films InGaO3(ZnO)(m) (where m less than or equal to 4) was prepared using a pulsed-laser deposition method. The resulting films exhibited an optical bandgap of 2.8-3.0eV, and an n-type electric conductivity of 170-400S cm(-1) at room temperature, displaying a slight dependence on the value of m, in which the carrier density was 10(19)-10(20) cm(-3) the electron mobility was 12-20 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) showing no p-n anomaly between Hall and Seebeck coefficients. The conductivity; displayed no significant dependence on the temperature ranging from 10 to 300 K. X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and extended X-ray absorption fine structure measurements confirmed that the films were amorphous phases. A combined use of bremsstrahlung isochromat spectroscopy and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy revealed that the conduction band tail had a large dispersion and that the Fermi level was located at the conduction band edge. The percolation theory and overlap integral calculations suggest that the extended conduction band of the amorphous metal oxides are formed when the (n - 1)d(10) ns(0) metal ions (n being the principal quantum number) occupy more than 20% of the atoms and the overlap integral between the vacant ns orbitals exceeds a threshold value of approximately 0.4. The present system is the first amorphous oxide semiconductor in which Zn 4s orbitals form the extended conduction band.
  • H Ohta, M Orita, M Hirano, H Hosono
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 89 10 5720 - 5725 2001年05月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    An ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV-LED) was realized using a p-n heterojunction composed of the transparent oxide semiconductors p-SrCu2O2 and n-ZnO. A Ni/SrCu2O2/ZnO/ITO multilayered film was epitaxially grown on an extremely flat YSZ (111) surface by a pulsed-laser deposition technique. SrCu2O2 (112) was preferentially grown on ZnO (0001) at 350 degreesC, while the preferential plane was changed into the (100) when the temperature was increased to 600 degreesC. The grown films were processed by conventional photolithography followed by reactive ion etching to fabricate heterojunction diodes. The resulting devices exhibited rectifying I-V characteristics inherent to p-n junctions. A relatively sharp electroluminescence band centered at 382 nm, attributed to transitions associated with exciton-exciton collision or electron-hole plasma in ZnO, was generated by applying a forward bias voltage greater than the turn-on voltage of 3 V. UV-LED performance characteristics such as threshold current and conversion efficiency improved with higher SrCu2O2 deposition temperatures. On the other hand, increased laser power density at 600 degreesC during deposition raised the incidence of insulating layer formation between the p and n layers, probably due to migration of K+ ions doped as an acceptor impurity. The resulting p-i-n diode emits broad luminescence centered at 500 nm for forward voltage greater than 14 V. (C) 2001 American Institute of Physics.
  • K Ueda, T Hase, H Yanagi, H Kawazoe, H Hosono, H Ohta, M Orita, M Hirano
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 89 3 1790 - 1793 2001年02月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Transparent p-type conducting CuGaO2 thin films were prepared on alpha -Al2O3 (001) single-crystal substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The films were grown epitaxially on the substrates in an as-deposited state. X-ray pole figure analysis revealed that the films were composed of two types of epitaxial grains, both with c axes oriented perpendicular to the surface and a axes rotated 60 degrees with respect to each other around the c axis. Observation of the CuGaO2 thin films by atomic force microscopy and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy substantiated this conclusion. The films have high optical transparency (similar to 80%) in the visible region, and the energy gap of CuGaO2 for direct allowed transition was estimated to be 3.6 eV. p-type conductivity was confirmed by Seebeck and Hall measurements. The electrical conductivity, carrier (positive hole) density, and Hall mobility of the films at room temperature were 6.3 x 10(-2) S cm(-1), 1.7 x 10(18) cm(-3), and 0.23 cm(2)V(-1) s(-1), respectively. (C) 2001 American Institute of Physics.
  • M Orita, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 77 25 4166 - 4168 2000年12月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Thin films of beta -Ga2O3 with an energy band gap of 4.9 eV were prepared on silica glass substrates by a pulsed-laser deposition method. N-type conductivity up to similar to1 S cm(-1) was obtained by Sn-ion doping and deposition under low O-2 partial pressure (similar to 10(-5) Pa) at substrate temperatures above 800 degreesC. The resulting internal transmittance at the wavelength (248 nm) of the KrF excimer laser exceeded 50% for the 100-nm-thick film, making this the most ultraviolet-transparent conductive oxide thin film to date and opening up prospects for applications such as ultraviolet transparent antistatic electric films in ultraviolet lithography. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(00)04249-2].
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Ken-Ichi Kawamura, Masahiro Orita, Masahiro Hirano, Nobuhiko Sarukura, Hideo Hosono
    Applied Physics Letters 77 4 475 - 477 2000年07月24日 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    An ultraviolet light-emitting diode (LED) operating at room temperature was realized using a p-n heterojunction composed of transparent conductive oxides. p-SrCu2O2 and n-ZnO. Multilayered films prepared by a pulsed-laser deposition technique were processed by conventional photolithography with the aid of reactive ion etching to fabricate the LED device. A rather sharp emission band centered at 382 nm was generated when a forward bias voltage exceeding the turn-on voltage of 3 V was applied to the junction. The emission may be attributed to a transition associated with the electron-hole plasma of ZnO. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
  • H Ohta, M Orita, M Hirano, H Tanji, H Kawazoe, H Hosono
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 76 19 2740 - 2742 2000年05月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Highly electrically conductive indium-tin-oxide thin films were epitaxially grown on an extremely flat (100) surface of yttria-stabilized zirconia single-crystal substrates at a substrate temperature of 600 degrees C by a pulsed-laser deposition technique. A resistivity down to 7.7x10(-5) Omega cm was reproducibly obtained, maintaining optical transmission exceeding 85% at wavelengths from 340 to 780 nm. The carrier densities of the films were enhanced up to 1.9x10(21) cm(-3), while the Hall mobility showed a slight, almost linear, decrease from 55 to 40 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) with increasing SnO2 concentration. The low resistivity is most likely the result of the good crystal quality of the films. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(00)01319-X].
  • H Ohta, K Kawamura, M Orita, N Sarukura, M Hirano, H Hosono
    ELECTRONICS LETTERS 36 11 984 - 985 2000年05月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    A UV-emitting diode composed of a hetero-SrCu2O2/ZnO pit junction was fabricated by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). On injecting an electrical current through a pn heterojunction of p-SrCu2O2/n-ZnO, an emission peak centred at 387 nm was observed, originating from excitons or the electron hole plasma in ZnO.
  • Hidenori Hiramatsu, Hiromichi Ohta, Won-Seon Seo, Kunihito Koumoto
    Funtai Oyobi Fummatsu Yakin/Journal of the Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy 44 1 44 - 49 1997年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We have reported that the thermoelectric figures of merit (Z) of the sintered bodies of layered structured (ZnO)mIn2O3, (m=5, 7, and 9) are comparatively large among the semiconducting oxides. In this work, (ZnO)5In2O3 thin films were prepared by r.f. (radio frequency) sputtering method to clarify their anisotropic nature. Under optimum sputtering conditions, (ZnO)5In2O3 thin films developed either (0021) or (110) crystallographic preferred orientation and had dense columnar structures. For c-axis and ab-plane oriented (ZnO)5In2O3 thin films, Seebeck coefficient (α) and electrical conductivity (σ) along the sheet direction were measured at 573-973K. Electrical conductivity of a c-axis oriented thin film was about an order of magnitude higher than that of an ab-plane oriented thin film, while their Seebeck coefficients were substantially the same. This observation suggests that the carrier mobility of (ZnO)5In2O3 along the c-plane is larger than along the ab-plane.
  • H Ohta, WS Seo, K Koumoto
    JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 79 8 2193 - 2196 1996年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Homologous compounds of (ZnO)(m)In2O3 (m = integer) with layered structures were synthesized by reaction-sintering a mixed powder of ZnO and In2O3 at 1823 K for 2 h in air, and their thermoelectric properties, i.e., electrical conductivity, Seebeck coefficient, and thermal conductivity, were measured at 500 to 1100 K, Their thermoelectric figure of merit depended on the composition, and an optimum value of m apparently existed giving the largest figure of merit.

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    太田裕道 (担当:共著範囲:2.3.1 核生成・成長)
    三共出版 2007年
  • 透明酸化物機能材料とその応用
    太田裕道 (担当:共著範囲:第2章 「透明p型導電性酸化物とpn接合デバイス」)
    シーエムシー出版 2006年
  • 環境調和型新材料シリーズ「熱電変換材料の技術戦略」
    太田裕道 (担当:共著範囲:3章3節 構造・形態制御 「エピタキシャル薄膜」)
    日本セラミックス協会・日本熱電学会編 2005年
  • 新訂版・薄膜作製応用ハンドブック
    太田裕道, 細野秀雄 (担当:共著範囲:「透明導電膜～ITOを中心に～」)
    エヌ・ティ・エス 2002年
  • エレクトロニクス材料・技術シリーズ「透明導電膜の新展開II」
    太田裕道, 細野秀雄 (担当:共著範囲:第３章 p型透明酸化物半導体とpnヘテロ接合発光ダイオード)
    シーエムシー出版 2002年

講演・口頭発表等

  • Ba1/3CoO2: 空気中，600 °Cで信頼できるZT ~0.55を示す熱電酸化物  [通常講演]
    張 習, 張 雨橋, 呉 礼奥, 鶴田彰宏, 三上祐史, ジョヘジュン, 太田裕道
    2022年 第83回 応用物理学会秋季学術講演会 2022年09月 口頭発表（一般）
  • Ba1/3CoO2: 空気中，600 °Cで信頼できるZT ~0.55を示す熱電酸化物  [通常講演]
    張 習, 張 雨橋, 呉 礼奥, 鶴田彰宏, 三上祐史, ジョヘジュン, 太田裕道
    第19回 日本熱電学会学術講演会 2022年08月 口頭発表（一般）
  • Thermoelectric Properties of Conducting Oxide Thin Films  [招待講演]
    Hiromichi Ohta
    Physics Seminar in Pusan National University 2022年05月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Solid-State Electrochemical Control of Oxygen Contents in Transition Metal Oxide Thin Films with Perovskite-Related Crystal Structure  [通常講演]
    Hiromichi Ohta, Qian Yang, Gowoon Kim, Xi Zhang
    2022 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit 2022年05月 口頭発表（一般）
  • 全固体熱トランジスタ  [通常講演]
    楊 倩, イジュンヤク, ジンヒョンジン, 魏 家科, 馮 斌, 幾原雄一, ジョヘジュン, 太田裕道
    2022年 第69回 応用物理学会 春季学術講演会 2022年03月 口頭発表（一般）
  • (学術賞受賞講演) 電子伝導性酸化物の薄膜化と熱電特性に関する研究  [招待講演]
    太田裕道
    日本セラミックス協会 2022年 年会 2022年03月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Solid-State Electrochemical Control of Physical Properties for Transition Metal Oxide Epitaxial Films with Perovskite-Related Crystal Structures  [招待講演]
    Hiromichi Ohta, Qian Yang, Hyoungjeen Jeen
    The American Ceramic Society 2022 Conference on Electronic Materials and Applications (EMA 2022) 2022年01月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Thermoelectric Energy Conversion using Metal Oxide Thin Films  [招待講演]
    Hiromichi Ohta
    The 22nd RIES-HOKUDAI International Symposium 2021年12月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 太田裕道
    第82回 応用物理学会秋季学術講演会 2021年09月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 太田裕道
    日本学術振興会 R025委員会 ８月研究会「エナジーハーベスティングデバイスの新材料・新構造・新プロセス（熱電変換，太陽電池）」 2021年08月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 太田裕道
    2021年 第68回 応用物理学会春季学術講演会 2021年03月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Hai Jun Cho, Yugo Takashima, Takaki Onozato
    Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid State Science (PRiME 2020) 2020年10月 口頭発表（一般）
  • 太田裕道, 高嶋佑伍, 小野里尚記, ジョ ヘジュン
    日本セラミックス協会 第33回秋季シンポジウム 2020年09月 口頭発表（一般）
  • Electron transport properties of wide bandgap transparent oxide semiconductor, BaSnO3-SrSnO3  [招待講演]
    Hiromichi Ohta
    The 12th International Workshop on Oxide Surfaces: IWOX-XII 2020年01月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Single Crystalline Film Growth of Layer Structured Oxides and Their Phonon Transports  [招待講演]
    Hiromichi Ohta, Hai Jun Cho, Yuzhang Wu, Bin Feng, Masashi Mikami, Woosuck Shin, Yuichi Ikuhara, and Keiji Saito
    2019 MRS Fall Meeting 2019年12月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 酸化物を使った電界（電解）効果トランジスタの開発  [招待講演]
    太田裕道
    日本セラミックス協会東北北海道支部 第27回北海道地区セミナー2019 2019年11月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 透明酸化物半導体BaSnO3–SrSnO3の電子輸送―エピタキシャル薄膜と薄膜トランジスタ―  [招待講演]
    太田裕道
    日本金属学会 2019年秋期(第165回)講演大会 2019年09月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Double enhancement of thermoelectric power factor in SrTiO3 based electron sandwitch  [招待講演]
    Hiromichi Ohta, Yuqiao Zhang
    4th Functional Oxide Thin Films for Advanced Energy and Information Technology Conference 2019年07月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Thermoelectric properties of two-dimensional electron system -superlattices and TFT channel-  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    2019 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Fundamentals and Applications of Advanced Semiconductor Devices (AWAD 2019) 2019年07月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Electron transport properties of transparent oxide semiconductor, BaSnO3-SrSnO3: Epitaxial films and thin film transistors  [招待講演]
    Hiromichi Ohta, Anup V. Sanchela
    EM-NANO 2019 2019年06月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 熱電変換材料としての金属酸化物の可能性  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    第5回大型実験施設とスーパーコンピュータとの連携利用シンポジウム 2019年03月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 熱電材料の二次元薄膜化と特性向上  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    日本学術振興会161委員会 研究会 2019年01月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Electric field thermopower modulation measurements of two-dimensional electron gas  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    International mini-workshop on Nonequlibrium transport and phase transition in novel materials 2018年11月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Double thermoelectric powerfactor of a 2D electron system  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    the International Conference on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment (ENGE 2018) 2018年11月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Development of three-terminal electrochromic device using water electrolysis  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    IUMRS-ICEM 2018 2018年08月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Thermopower of 2D electron systems  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    The 2018 International Symposium for Advanced Materials Research (ISAMR 2018) 2018年08月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 捨てられている熱を電気に変える熱電変換材料  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    国立大学共同利用・共同研究拠点協議会 知の拠点セミナー 2018年07月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Double enhancement of thermoelectric power factor in two-dimensional electron system  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    the 16th International Nanotech Symposium & Nano-Convergence Exhibition, NANO KOREA 2018 2018年07月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Electric field thermopower modulation of two-dimensional electron gas  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    The 25th International Workshop on Active-Matrix Flatpanel Displays and Devices – TFT Technologies and FPD Materials – (AM-FPD 18) 2018年07月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 二次元電子層のSeebeck効果－人工超格子と電界誘起二次元電子ガス－  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    物性談話会 2018年06月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Thermoelectric Seebeck effect of 2D electron systems  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    The first International Joint Symposium of CEFMS-NCTU, RCAS-AS (Taiwan) and 5-Star Alliance (Japan) 2018年05月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Thermopower of two-dimensional electron system  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    Physics Seminar in Pusan National University 2018年04月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 二次元電子系の熱電ゼーベック効果  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    第65回 応用物理学会春季学術講演会 2018年03月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 水を使った機能性酸化物の光・電気・磁気特性切替え  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    平成29年度日本表面科学会東北・北海道支部講演会 2018年03月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 半導体薄膜の熱電特性  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    電子情報通信学会シリコン材料デバイス・電子デバイス合同研究会 2018年03月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Thermopower of oxide heterostructure  [招待講演]
    H. Ohta, A. Sanchela
    ICAMD2017 (The 11th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Devices) 2017年12月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Double enhancement of thermoelectric power factor in oxide two-dimensional electron system via precise dimensionality control  [招待講演]
    Hiromichi Ohta, Yu-Qiao Zhang
    2017 Fall Korean Physical Society (KPS) Meeting 2017年10月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 薄膜トランジスタ構造を用いた熱電能の計測  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    第14回 薄膜材料デバイス研究会 2017年10月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Electric field thermopower modulation measurement  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    Seoul National University 2017年10月 公開講演，セミナー，チュートリアル，講習，講義等
  • Epitaxial film growth and some applications of functional oxides  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    Distinguished Lecture Series at Materials Science & Engineering 2017年10月 公開講演，セミナー，チュートリアル，講習，講義等
  • Electrochemical modulation of functional oxides using three-terminal thin film transistor structure with water infiltrated gate dielectrics  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    Seminar at Tshinghua University (hosted by Prof. Yu Pu) 2017年09月 公開講演，セミナー，チュートリアル，講習，講義等
  • 水を使った機能性酸化物薄膜の光・電気・磁気物性切替え手法  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    産業技術総合研究所 中部センター 講演会 2017年09月 公開講演，セミナー，チュートリアル，講習，講義等
  • 固相エピタキシャル成長法を駆使した機能性酸化物ナノ層の創製  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    2017年09月 口頭発表（基調）
  • Electric field modulation of thermopower in two-dimensional electron gas  [招待講演]
    H. Ohta
    IUMRS-ICAM (The 15th International Conference on Advanced Materials) 2017年08月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Electrochemical function modulation of oxides using three-terminal thin film transistor structure with water infiltrated insulator  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    The 3rd Functional Oxide Thin Films for Advanced Energy and Information Technology 2017年07月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 導電性酸化物薄膜の物性改質方法  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    第64回応用物理学会春季学術講演会（合同セッションK, シンポジウム「金属酸化物の結晶物性に迫る」） 2017年03月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Thermoelectric Seebeck effect of two dimensional electron gas in SrTiO3  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    International conference on Advances in Functional Materials (ICAFM2017) 2017年01月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Unusually large thermopower of nanostructured oxides  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    ENGE 2016 (International Conference on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment) 2016年11月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 熱電能電界変調法：AlGaN/GaN-MOSHEMT  [招待講演]
    太田裕道, 金木奨太, 橋詰 保
    2016年 第77回応用物理学会秋季学術講演会 2016年09月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Electro-chemical redox switching of functional oxide thin films using water-infiltrated nanoporous glass  [招待講演]
    H. Ohta, T. Katase
    International Workshop on Oxide Surfaces (IWOX-X) 2016年01月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Water electrolysis induced modification of functional oxides−Thermoelectric properties−  [招待講演]
    H. Ohta, T. Katase
    IUMRS-ICAM 2015 2015年10月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 熱電変換材料って何？  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    日本化学会秋季事業 第5回CSJ化学フェスタ2015 2015年10月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 水の電気分解を利用した機能性酸化物ナノ層創製  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    日本金属学会 2015年秋期講演大会 2015年09月 口頭発表（基調）
  • Development of oxide-based nanostructured thermoelectric materials  [招待講演]
    H. Ohta
    4th International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics -working on small scales 2015年08月 口頭発表（基調）
  • Two-dimensional giant thermopower –SrTiO3-based superlattices and transistors-  [招待講演]
    H. Ohta
    The American Ceramic Society’s 11th International Conference on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applications (CMCEE-11) 2015年06月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Thermoelectric effect of extremely thin electron doped SrTiO3  [招待講演]
    H. Ohta
    The 1st IOP-RIES Joint Workshop 2015年03月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Thermopower enhancement of two-dimensional electron gas in oxide semiconductors  [招待講演]
    H. Ohta
    The American Ceramic Society’s Electronic Materials and Applications 2015 (EMA2015) 2015年01月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 酸化物薄膜作製におけるパルスレーザー堆積法とその応用  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    3次元造形＆薄膜実践セミナー 2014年09月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 水電気分解を利用した酸化物の熱電能変調  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    第75回 応用物理学会秋季学術講演会（シンポジウム：固液界面を使った新しい酸化物エレクトロニクス：化学とデバイスの融合） 2014年09月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Epitaxial Film Growth and Application of Functional Oxides  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    HOKUDAI-NCTU Joint Symposium on Nano, Photo and Bio Sciences, RIES 2014年09月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 酸化物半導体に蓄積された二次元電子ガスー熱電能を中心にー  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    統合物質創製化学推進事業 第５回若手研究会 2014年06月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Electric Field Modulation of a Thermoelectric Material  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    Thermec 2013 2013年12月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 酸化物半導体のエピタキシャル薄膜成長  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    酸化物アライアンス第11回研究会(第5回公開講演会)「透明導電膜のサイエンス」 2013年05月 公開講演，セミナー，チュートリアル，講習，講義等
  • Two dimensional thermoelectric effect  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    Distinguished Lecture Series for 2012 fall semester in Sungkyunkwan University 2012年12月 公開講演，セミナー，チュートリアル，講習，講義等
  • Electric field thermopower modulation of 2DEG in oxide semiconductor based field effect transistors  [通常講演]
    太田 裕道
    MRS 2012 Fall Meeting 2012年11月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Unusually large thermopower enhancement in an electric field induced two-dimensional electron gas  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    E-MRS 2012 Spring Meeting 2012年05月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • Electric-Field Thermopower Modulation Method  [招待講演]
    太田 裕道
    Japan-Finland March Meeting for the future in thermoelectrics 2012年03月 口頭発表（招待・特別）
  • 高分解能X線回折法による金属酸化物薄膜の分析  [通常講演]
    太田裕道
    第240回Ｘ線分析研究懇談会 2011年12月 名古屋大学
  • ナノ孔に閉じ込められた水を利用した二次元電子ガス生成と巨大熱電能変調  [通常講演]
    太田裕道, 水野 拓, S. Zheng, 加藤丈晴, 幾原雄一, 安部勝美, 雲見日出也, 野村研二, 細野秀雄
    日本金属学会2011年秋期大会 2011年11月 沖縄コンベンションセンターおよびカルチャーリゾートフェストーネ（沖縄）
  • 電界誘起二次元電子ガスの巨大熱電能変調  [通常講演]
    太田裕道, 水野 拓, Shijian Zheng, 加藤丈晴, 幾原雄一, 安部勝美, 雲見日出也, 野村研二, 細野秀雄
    第72回応用物理学会学術講演会 2011年08月 山形大学小石川キャンパス（山形）
  • 温度差で発電する熱電材料-酸化物の挑戦  [通常講演]
    太田裕道
    超精密加工専門委員会第62回研究会（高度エネルギー変換材料） 2011年07月 大阪ガーデンパレス（大阪）
  • チタン酸ストロンチウムの熱電現象  [通常講演]
    太田裕道
    新化学発展協会 電子情報技術部会講演会 2011年03月 新化学発展協会会議室（東京）
  • 水の電気分解を利用したSrTiO3の金属化と熱電能  [通常講演]
    太田裕道
    第55回固体イオニクス研究会「遷移金属複合酸化物：新しい合成法、物質、物性」 2011年01月 京都国際会館（京都）

作品等

  • 科学研究費補助金 新学術領域研究（研究領域提案型）領域番号6103 「機能コアの材料科学」（領域代表者：松永克志 教授・名古屋大学）19H05791 界面制御による高機能薄膜材料創製（研究代表者）
    2019年 -2023年
  • 科学研究費補助金 基盤研究(A) 17H01314 熱電材料の高ZT化に向けたナノ周期平行平板構造の熱伝導率解明（研究代表者）
    太田 裕道  2017年04月
  • 科学研究費補助金 基盤研究（A) 25246023 酸化物半導体一次元電子ガスの電界誘起と超巨大熱電能変調（研究代表者）
    太田 裕道  2013年04月
  • 科学研究費補助金 新学術領域研究（研究領域提案型）領域番号2505 「ナノ構造情報のフロンティア開拓－材料科学の新展開」（領域代表者：田中 功 教授・京都大学）25106007 原子層制御による新しい材料機能探索（研究代表者）
    太田 裕道  2013年
  • 科研費基盤研究（Ｂ）「酸化物薄膜トランジスタにおける巨大熱電能の電界変調と赤外線センサー応用」
    2010年 -2012年
  • 科研費特定領域「電界誘起二次元電子層の可視化」
    2010年 -2011年
  • 科学技術振興機構さきがけ「電界誘起二次元伝導層の熱起電力と制御」
    2008年 -2011年
  • 科研費特定領域「誘電体へテロ界面に蓄積された二次元電子ガスの電子状態と量子サイズ効果の起源」
    2008年 -2010年
  • 科研費若手研究(A)「二次元電子ガスを有する酸化物超格子の作製と熱電変換物性」
    2006年 -2008年
  • NEDO産業技術研究助成事業「局在化した二次元電子ガスを有する誘電体人工超格子の作製と熱電変換材料への応用」
    2005年 -2008年

その他活動・業績

  • 太田裕道 機能材料 43 (4) 3 -9 2023年04月 [査読無し][招待有り]
  • 太田裕道 クリーンエネルギー 31 (12) 41 2022年12月 [査読無し][招待有り]
  • 機能コアを活用した新機能薄膜の創成
    太田裕道, 寺崎一郎, 齊藤圭司 まてりあ 61 (10) 661 -665 2022年10月 [招待有り]
  • 安心・安全な熱電変換材料を目指して－優れた変換性能をもつ層状酸化物Ba1/3CoO2
    太田裕道 化学 76 (6) 68 -69 2021年06月01日 [査読無し][招待有り]
  • 太田裕道 クリーンエネルギー 30 (3) 46 -49 2021年03月10日 [査読無し][招待有り]
  • エレクトロクロミック素子の開発最前線－遷移金属酸化物の多彩な物性変化を利用してー
    太田裕道 學士會会報 947 81 -85 2021年03月01日 [査読無し][招待有り]
  • Electron sandwich doubles the thermoelectric power factor of SrTiO3
    Yuqiao Zhang, Hiromichi Ohta Phys. Status Solidi A 1800832 2019年03月 [査読有り][招待有り]
  • 薄い電子層を絶縁体でサンドイッチ：熱電変換特性を高める方法
    太田裕道, 張 雨橋 車載テクノロジー 6 (5) 38 2019年02月 [査読無し][招待有り]
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Hidenori Hiramatsu Nanoinformatics 207 -235 2018年01月15日 [査読無し][招待有り]
     
    Regions of a few nanometers at the surface or interface of a material exhibit various functional properties, which differ from those of the bulk because the electrons and/or ions receive different potentials due to the incoherent atomic arrangement. High-quality epitaxial films of functional materials called "nanolayers" are important to utilize such functional properties. However, fabrication of high-quality nanolayers of complex materials with complicated crystal structures is usually challenging due to the difference in the thermochemical properties of the constituents. In this chapter, epitaxial growth techniques, especially "reactive solid-phase epitaxy" of functional oxides and chalcogenides, are reviewed based on the authors' efforts. Additionally, this chapter reviews several modulation methods of optical, electrical, and magnetic properties of functional oxide nanolayers.
  • 特別記事・注目をあびるエレクトロクロミック材料とその可能性－窓ガラスがメモリーとして利用可能に－
    太田 裕道 工業材料 65 (1) 78 -82 2017年02月 [査読無し][招待有り]
  • Takayoshi Katase, Hiromichi Ohta JOURNAL OF THE CERAMIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN 125 (8) 608 -615 2017年 [査読無し][招待有り]
     
    Using the flexible valence states of transition-metal-oxides (TMOs), the optical, electronic, and magnetic properties can be simultaneously controlled by electrochemical oxidation and reduction. Herein we review our recent works on the electrochemically switchable functional thin-film device, which has a three-terminal thin-film-transistor (TFT) structure with the TMO as an active channel layer and the liquid-leakage-free electrolyte as a gate insulator. Thin films of vanadium dioxide, tungsten trioxide, and strontium cobaltite were selected as the channel layer. By applying the gate voltage at room temperature in air, the protonation/deprotonation or oxidation/deoxidation occurs in the TMO channels and their opto-electronic and electro-magnetic properties are reversibly switched by using the mobile ions in the solid TFT structure. The present device with liquid-leakage-free electrolyte provides a novel design concept for the development of future multifunctional switching devices based on TMOs. (C)2017 The Ceramic Society of Japan. All rights reserved.
  • 中村圭佑, 片瀬貴義, 押切友也, 上野貢生, 太田裕道, 三澤弘明 日本化学会春季年会講演予稿集(CD-ROM) 96th 2016年
  • Takayoshi Katase, Kenji Endo, Hiromichi Ohta OXIDE-BASED MATERIALS AND DEVICES VII 9749 974916 2016年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Compared to state-of-the-art modulation techniques, protonation is the most ideal to control the electrical and optical properties of transition metal oxides (TMOs) due to its intrinsic non-volatile operation. However, the protonation of TMOs is not typically utilized for solid-state devices because of imperative high-temperature annealing treatment in hydrogen source. Although one solution for room temperature (RT) protonation of TMOs is liquid-phase electrochemistry, it is unsuited for practical purposes due to liquid-leakage problem. Herein we demonstrate solid-state RT-protonation of vanadium dioxide (VO2), which is a well-known thermochromic TMO. We fabricated the three terminal thin-film-transistor structure on an insulating VO2 film using a water-infiltrated nanoporous glass, which serves as a solid electrolyte. For gate voltage application, water electrolysis and protonation/deprotonation of VO2 film surface occurred, leading to reversible metal-insulator phase conversion of similar to 11-nm-thick VO2 layer. The protonation was clearly accompanied by the structural change from an insulating monoclinic to a metallic tetragonal phase. Present results offer a new route for the development of electro-optically active solid-state devices with TMO materials by engineering RT protonation.
  • 中村圭佑, 片瀬貴義, 押切友也, 上野貢生, 太田裕道, 三澤弘明 日本化学会講演予稿集 95th (2) 2015年
  • ナノ構造熱電材料の開発動向
    太田 裕道 高分子 63 (11) 785 2014年11月 [査読無し][招待有り]
  • 単層遷移金属ダイカルコゲナイドにおける熱電効果の電場変調(7pAH 領域4,領域7合同グラフェン関連(新物質・原子層),領域4(半導体,メゾスコピック系・局在))
    蒲, 江, 金橋, 魁利, Nguyen, Thanh Cuong, Li, Lain-Jong, 岡田, 晋, 太田, 裕道, 竹延, 大志 日本物理学会講演概要集 69 (2) 470 2014年08月 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 太田 裕道 応用物理 81 (9) 740 -745 2012年09月
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto Multifunctional Oxide Heterostructures 9780199584123 2012年08月30日 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Thermoelectric energy conversion technology to convert waste heat into electricity has received much attention. In addition, metal oxides have recently been considered as thermoelectric power generation materials that can operate at high temperatures on the basis of their potential advantages over heavy metallic alloys in chemical and thermal robustness. This chapter fabricates high quality epitaxial films composed of oxide thermoelectric materials, which are suitable for clarifying the intrinsic properties. It focuses on the thermoelectric properties of two representative oxide epitaxial films, ptype Ca3Co4O9 and n-type SrTiO3, which exhibit the best thermoelectric figures of merit, ZT(=S2·σT·κ-1, S: Seebeck coefficient, σ: electrical conductivity, κ: thermal conductivity, and T: absolute temperature) among oxide thermoelectric materials reported to date. In addition, it introduces the recently discovered giant S of two-dimensional electrons confined within a unit cell layer thickness (~0.4 nm) of SrTiO3.
  • 太田 裕道 セラミックス 47 (7) 520 -523 2012年07月01日
  • 太田裕道 粉体および粉末冶金 57 (4) 232 -236 2010年04月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Here I review the thermoelectric properties of electron doped SrTiO 3. Since density of states effective mass of electron carrier in SrTiO3 crystal is rather large, heavily electron doped SrTiO 3 crystal exhibits rather large Seebeck coefficient (S). The reliable thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT is ∼0.08 at room temperature and ∼0.3 at 1,000 K, which is highest among metallic oxides. Recently, we found that high-density ( ∼-1021 cm-3) two-dimensional (2D) electron layers in SrTiO3 crystal exhibits giant S, which is ∼5 times larger than that of simple bulk, when the layer thickness is as thin as one unit cell (0.3905 nm). The 2D electron layer is realized by superlattices of SrTiO 3/ SrTi0.8Nb0.2o3 or TiO 2/SrTiO3 heterointerface. Very recently, we fabricated high performance field effect transistors (FETs) on SrTiO3 single crystal to modulate the Seebeck coefficient by applying the gate voltage.
  • 太田 裕道 金属 79 (3) 219 -222 2009年03月
  • 太田 裕道, 溝口 照康, 幾原 雄一 マテリアルインテグレーション 22 (9) 10,38-42 -42 2009年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 太田 裕道 化学工業 60 (1) 47 -50 2009年01月
  • Yi Feng Wang, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL 35 (1) 537 -537 2009年01月 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 石田 行章, 藤森 淳, 太田 裕道 固体物理 43 (6) 343 -349 2008年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 反応性固相エピタキシャル成長法
    機能材料 28 27 2008年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 太田 裕道 電気学会誌 128 (5) 290 -292 2008年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
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  • 酸化物熱電変換材料の開発動向
    セラミックス 43 966 2008年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 太田 裕道 未来材料 8 (8) 10 -13 2008年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • R. Funahashi, A. Kosuga, N. Miyasou, E. Takeuchi, S. Urata, K. Lee, H. Ohta, K. Koumoto PROCEEDINGS ICT 07: TWENTY-SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THERMOELECTRICS 124 -128 2008年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Ca1-xRExMnO3 (RE: Nd, Tb, Ho, Yb, Lu, x = 0.1 and 0.2) bulks were prepared by a solid state reaction. They show metallic behavior at temperatures higher than about 400 K and electrical resistivity rho is lower than 12 m Omega cm at 1000 K in air. Absolute values of Seebeck coefficient S increases with temperature up to 973 K for all samples except Ca0.9Yb0.1MnO3 at 973 K. For Ca0.9Lu0.1MnO3, S value reaches -130 mu V/K at 973 K. Both thermoelectric properties are dominated mainly by crystallographic structure. Power factor PF (=S-2/rho) increases with decreasing cell volume. Thermal conductivity kappa of Yb- and Lu-substituted samples is as low as 1.5 W/m-K-2 and dimension-less figure of merit ZT reaches 0.16 at 973 K for Ca0.8Lu0.2MnO3 in air.
  • Tomohito Nakano, Wataru Kobayashi, Ryoji Funahashi, Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto, Ichiro Terasaki PROCEEDINGS ICT 07: TWENTY-SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THERMOELECTRICS 121 -123 2008年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    We synthesized whisker-crystal and thin-film samples of the layered cobalt oxide (Bi2Sr2O4)(x)CoO2 well known as a candidate of a thermoelectric material, and measured their resistivity, voltage-current characteristics and magnetoresistance with pulsed currents. Resistivity of the whisker sample with a small current density of 2 mA/cm(2) increases with decreasing temperature below 100 K, suggesting development of a pseudogap on the density of states. This increase is suppressed by a large current density of 110 A/cm(2). The nonlinear voltage-current characteristics are observed both for the whisker and thin-film samples. The negative magnetoresistance of the thin-film sample is suppressed by current density. These suggest that the density of states recovers owing to the suppression of the pseudogap by applying large current density.
  • 酸化物半導体の薄膜トランジスタへの応用
    野村研二, 神谷利夫, 太田裕道, 平野正浩, 細野秀雄 機能材料 28 (3月号) 42 -53 2008年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Rong Huang, Yuichi Ikuhara THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATION 1044 395 -+ 2008年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    We propose herein that amorphous oxide semiconductor (AOS) superlattices, which can be deposited on various substrate including glasses or plastics without any substrate heating, are appropriate for the realization of superlattice thermoelectric devices. As an example, thermoelectric properties of AOS superlattices composed of a-In-Zn-O (well) and a-In-Ga-Zn-O (barrier) layers, fabricated on SiO2 glass substrate by pulsed laser deposition at room temperature, were measured to clarify whether enhancement of Seebeck coefficient |S| occurs or not. The |S|(2D) value increases drastically with decreasing a-In-Zn-O thickness (d(IZO)) when the d(IZO) is < similar to 5 nm, and reached 73 mu V.K-1 (d(IZO) = 0.3 nm), which is similar to 4 times larger than that of bulk |S|(3D) (19 mu V.K-1), while it kept high electrical conductivity, clearly demonstrating that the quantum size effect can be utilized in AOS superlattices.
  • Yuki Nakanishi, Hiromichi Ohta, Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Yuichi Ikuhara, Kunihito Koumoto THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATION 1044 375 -+ 2008年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Carrier transport properties such as carrier concentration (n(e)), Hall mobility (mu(Hall)) and Seebeck coefficient (S) for the superlattices of [(BaTiO3)(x)/(SrTi0.7Nb0.3O3)(1)](z) (x = 1, 4, 6, 9 and 15) were measured to clarify the critical barrier thickness for the electron confinement in a unit cell layer thickness of SrTi0.7Nb0.3O3. The mu(Hall) values drastically decreased with the x-value due to the Ba-alloying occurred. We observed enhancement of |S| value in BaTiO3/SrTi1-xNbxO3 superlattices due to the quantum size effect, which is similar to SrTiO3/SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3 superlattices. Critical BaTiO3 layer thickness for fully confinement of the conduction electron significantly decreased (6 unit cells) as compared to that of SrTiO3/SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3 superlattices.
  • Yoriko Mune, Hiromichi Ohta, Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Yuichi Ikuhara, Kunihito Koumoto THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATION 1044 369 -+ 2008年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    We report two-dimensional Seebeck coefficients (|S|(2D)) of [(SrTio(3))(x)/(SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3)(y)](20) (x 1-50, y = 1-16) superlattices, which were grown on the (100)-face of insulating LaAlO3 substrates, to clarify the origin of the giant |S|(2D) values of the SrTiO3 superlattices [H. Ohta et al., Nature Materials 6, 129 (2007)]. The |S|(2D) values of the [(SrTiO3)(17)/(SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3)(y)](20) superlattices increased proportionally to Y-05, and reached 320 mu V K-1 (y = 1), which is similar to 5 times larger than that of the SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3 bulk (|S|(3D) = 61 mu V K-1). The slope of the log |S|(2D)-log y plots was -0.5, proving that the density of states in the ground state for SrTiO3 increases inversely proportionally to y. Further, the |S|(2D) value monotonically increases with x-value and is saturated when x-value > 16 (6.25 nm). We clarified that the critical barrier thickness for electron tunneling in [(SrTiO3)(x)/(SrTi0.8Nb0.2O3)(y)](z) superlattice is 6.25 nm (16 unit cell layers of SrTiO3).
  • 石田 行章, 江口 律子, 松波 雅治, 堀楊 弘司, 田口 宗孝, Chainani Ashish, 仙波 泰徳, 大橋 治彦, 太田 裕道, 辛 埴 日本物理学会講演概要集 62 (1) 592 -592 2007年02月28日
  • Materials Today 10 44 2007年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 毒性物質を使わない高性能酸化物熱電材料の開発
    熱電学会誌 3 2 2007年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 酸化物熱電変換材料-誘電体中に閉じ込められた二次元電子の巨大熱起電力-
    セラミックス 42 592 2007年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 太田 裕道 機能材料 27 (69) 69 -74 2007年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 脱・重金属！！ありふれた金属酸化物で廃熱を電気に変える
    化学 62 31 2007年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 熱電現象の新発見-2DEGが発生する巨大熱起電力
    セラミックデータブック2007（工業製品技術協会） 35 84 2007年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 石田行章, 江口律子, 松波雅治, 堀場弘司, 田口宗孝, CHAINANI Ashish, 仙波泰徳, 大橋治彦, 太田裕道, SHIN S., SHIN S. 応用物理学関係連合講演会講演予稿集 54th (1) 2007年
  • 杉浦 健二, 太田 裕道, 河本 邦仁 Fine ceramics report 25 (1) 23 -28 2007年
  • K. H. Lee, A. Ishizaki, H. Ohta, K. Koumoto International Conference on Thermoelectrics, ICT, Proceedings 136 -139 2007年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Thermoelectric properties of the heavily Nb-doped SrO(SrTiO 3)1 were investigated over a wide temperature range (20 - 800 K) by the preparation of c-axis-oriented epitaxial films. The films were grown heteroepitaxially on the (001)-face of the LaAlO3 substrate with an epitaxial relationship of (001) [100] Nb-doped SrO(SrTiO 3)1 || (001) [100] LaAlO3. The thermoelectric properties of the Nb-doped SrO(SrTiO3)1 epitaxial films were enhanced compared with those of the polycrystalline ceramics, and the electronic transport occurred predominantly in the SrTiO3 layers. © 2008 IEEE.
  • Y. F. Wang, K. H. Lee, H. Ohta, K. Koumoto International Conference on Thermoelectrics, ICT, Proceedings 157 -160 2007年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    We herein report the significant relaitonship between the thermoelectric properties and the crystallogrphic characteristics, especially the local symmetry of TiO6 octahedra, in the n = 2 Ruddlesden-Popper (RP)-type phases of 5 at.%-rare earth (RE3+ = La3+, Nd3+, Sm3+ and Gd3+)-doped SrO(SrTiO3)2. It was observed that doped RE3+ ions occupied preferentially the Sr-site (CN = 9) in SrO layer, which had a favorable restoration effect on the distorted TiO6 octahedra which was found more effective in smaller-sized RE3+ -doped compounds, as partially proven by the increase in O3-Ti-O3 bond angle with decreasing in ionic radius of RE 3+. The Sm3+ and Gd3+-doped SrO(SrTiO 3)2 exhibited larger Seebeck coefficient (|S|) than those of La3+ and Nd3+-doped SrO(SrTiO3)2 over the whole measured temperature range (300~1000 K). This is considered to be due to the enhancement of the density of states (DOS) in Ti 3d orbitals originated from improved symmetry in TiO6 octahedra by smaller RE3+ doping. © 2008 IEEE.
  • Hiromichi Ohta, Shingo Ohta, Kunihito Koumoto HIGH-PERFORMANCE CERAMICS IV, PTS 1-3 336-338 809 -+ 2007年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Nb-content dependence of the thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT of SrTiO3 at high-temperature (1000 K) is clarified using heavily Nb-doped SrTiO3 epitaxial films, which were grown on (100)-face of LaAlO3 single crystal substrates by a pulsed-laser deposition. Carrier concentration, Hall mobility, Seebeck coefficient, and thermal conductivity of Nb-doped SrTiO3 epitaxial films were experimentally evaluated at 1000 K with an aid of theoretical analysis. ZT reached 0.37 (20%-Nb-doped SrTiO3 epitaxial film) at 1000 K, which is the largest value among n-type oxide semiconductors ever reported.
  • 中野 智仁, 小林 航, 舟橋 良次, 杉浦 健二, 太田 裕道, 河本 邦仁, 寺崎 一郎 日本物理学会講演概要集 62 (0) 607 -607 2007年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • H Ohta JOURNAL OF THE CERAMIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN 114 (1326) 147 -154 2006年02月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    High-quality epitaxial film growth for several complex oxides having layered structure by "Reactive Solid-Phase-Epitaxy (R-SPE1))" is reviewed. Materials focused are InGaO3 (ZnO)(m) (m=integer), LaCuOS and NaxCoO2 (x similar to 0.8). For the epitaxial film growths of the complex systems with a complicated layered crystal structure, it is necessary to form an epitaxial template layer before the film deposition, followed by the thermal annealing of the bilayer films. The layers subsequently deposited on the template layer may be amorphous, polycrystalline or powder, which allows control of the epitaxially grown films in the R-SPE method.
  • 太田 裕道, 野村 研二, 平松 秀典 リガクジャーナル 37 (1) 3 -10 2006年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • K. H. Lee, H. Ohta, K. Koumoto International Conference on Thermoelectrics, ICT, Proceedings 81 -84 2006年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Thermoelectric (TE) properties of natural superlattice Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) phases were measured to elucidate their potential as TE materials, and the origin of the TE properties was discussed from the viewpoint of the shape of the TiO6 octahedron. Compared with the cubic perovskite-type phase Nb-doped SrTiO3, efficient reduction of the lattice thermal conductivity was observed by more than 50% at room temperature and 30% at 1000 K. There was a decrease in electrical conductivity owing to the randomly distributed insulating SrO layers in polycrystalline RP phases, and it was found that large TE power can be obtained in conjunction with high symmetry TiO 6 octahedra. © 2006 IEEE.
  • D. Flahaut, R. Funahashi, K. Lee, H. Ohta, K. Koumoto ICT'06: XXV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THERMOELECTRICS, PROCEEDINGS 103 -+ 2006年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Ca1-xYbxMnO3 (x = 0.05) samples were prepared via solid state reaction in air. Electrical and thermoelectric properties have been investigated up to 1000K. The measurements reveal that the resistivity values are strongly affected by the charge carrier content and the octahedral distortion. The lowest p reaches 3m Omega.cm for x=0.15. Whereas the Seebeck coefficient depends only on the charge carrier concentration, the thermal conductivity of Ca1-xYbxMnO3 is mainly governed by the mass difference between the Yb and Ca cations. The best ZT value, ZT=0.2, is obtained for x=0.05 at 1000K and demonstrates the good potentialities of these oxides as high temperature thermoelectric material.
  • Y. Ishida, H. Ohta, A. Fujimori, H. Hosono LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS, PTS A AND B 850 1215 -+ 2006年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    The electronic structure of NaxCoO2 photoemission spectroscopy (PES). We present the first successful angle-resolved PES (ARPES) measurements on a NaxCoO2 epitaxial thin film prepared by the reactive solid-phase epitaxy method. Dispersions in ARPES and a 6-fold low-energy electron-diffraction pattern were observed. The Co 3d-derived peak (located similar to 0.8 eV below Fermi level) showed an anomalous shift to higher binding energies at elevated temperatures, which indicates the importance of large spin entropy.
  • Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kenji Nomura, Tomohiro Saito, Yuichi Ikuhara, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono, Kunihito Koumoto ICT'06: XXV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THERMOELECTRICS, PROCEEDINGS 99 -+ 2006年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Epitaxial film of a layered cobalt oxide, Ca3Co4O9, was fabricated on a (0001)-face of alpha-Al2O3 substrate by a topotactic ion exchange method using a Na0.8CoO2 epitaxial film as a precursor. High-resolution X-ray diffraction and atomic force microscope measurements revealed that the film was high-quality (001)-oriented Ca3Co4O9 with stepped & terraced surface morphology. The film exhibits a high electrical conductivity of 2.95 x 10(2) Scm(-1) and a large Seebeck coefficient of similar to+125 mu VK-1, which leads to the thermoelectric power factor of 4.5 x 10(-4) Wm(-1)K(-2) at 300 K.
  • 太田 裕道 工業材料 53 (8) 70 -73 2005年08月
  • 太田 裕道 セラミックス 40 (4) 321 -322 2005年04月01日
  • 石田 行章, 橋本 信, 藤森 淳, 杉浦 健二, 太田 裕道, 平野 正浩, 細野 秀雄 日本物理学会講演概要集 60 (1) 560 -560 2005年03月04日
  • 透明酸化物半導体の高品質薄膜成長
    機能材料 25 22 2005年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • Chen Gang, Yang Ronggui マテリアルインテグレーション 18 (9) 31 -36 2005年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • W Wunderlich, S Ohta, H Ohta, K Koumoto ICT: 2005 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THERMOELECTRICS 237 -240 2005年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    The Ruddlesden-Popper phase (SrTiO3)(n)(SrO)(m), with n=2, m=1 is considered as an advanced thermoelectric layered material based on ceramic semiconductors and combines the high electric conductivity of SrTiO3 with the low thermal conductivity of SrO due to the concept of nanoblock integration. However, it still need to be improved: In SrTiO3 the effective mass as one of main factors for the Seebeck coefficient can be enlarged through substitution by heavy elements as calculated from the curvature of the electronic band structure. The effective mass increases with the substitution of Ba on the A-site and V on the B-site in SrTiO3, For the RP-phases STO327, STO214 it shows anisotropy of more than a factor of two for in-plane and out-of-plane-directions and the Sr-O and Ti-O bonds show a stronger localization at the SrO/SrTiO3 interface than in SrTiO3-bulk, but the average effective mass is rather low.
  • S Ohta, T Nomura, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono, K Koumoto ICT: 2005 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THERMOELECTRICS 168 -171 2005年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    To clarify the potential of n-type conductive SrTiO3 as a high temperature thermoelectric material, Carrier concentration dependence of the thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT of SrTiO3 at high-temperature (1000 K) is clarified using heavily Nb- or La-doped SrTiO3 epitaxial films, which were grown on insulating (100)-oriented LaAlO3 single-crystalline substrates by a pulsed-laser deposition method. Carrier concentration, Hall mobility, Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity of Nb- or La-doped SrTiO3 epitaxial films were experimentally evaluated at 1000 K with an aid of theoretical analysis. The maximum ZT value was obtained ZT = 0.37 for 4 x 10(21) cm(-3) Nb-doped SrTiO3 at 1000 K, which is the largest value among n-type oxide semiconductors ever reported.
  • 野村研二, 太田裕道, 神谷利夫, 平野正浩, 細野秀雄 マテリアルインテグレーション 18 (2) 3 -9 2005年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 植田 和茂, 平松 秀典, 太田 裕道, 平野 正浩, 神谷 利夫, 細野 秀雄 日本物理学会講演概要集 59 (1) 726 -726 2004年03月03日
  • 石田 行草, 藤森 淳, 太田 裕道, 平野 正浩, 細野 秀雄 日本物理学会講演概要集 59 (1) 881 -881 2004年03月03日
  • J. Ceram. Soc. Jpn. Suppl. 112 S602-S609 2004年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • Transparent Oxide Optoelectronics
    Materials Today 7 42 2004年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 透明酸化物半導体とデバイスへの展開（分担）
    オプトロニクス (10) 2004年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • K Nomura, H Ohta, K Ueda, T Kamiya, M Hirano, F Hosono INTEGRATION OF ADVANCED MICRO-AND NANOELECTRONIC DEVICES-CRITICAL ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS 811 391 -396 2004年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Carrier transport properties and electronic structure of an n-type transparent oxide semiconductor, InGaO3(ZnO)(5), were investigated using single-crystalline thin films. Room-temperature Hall mobility strongly depends on carrier concentration, and rapidly increased from similar to2 cm(2) (Vs)(-1) to > 10 cm(2) (Vs)(-1) around the carrier concentration (N-th) similar to3 x 10(18) cm(-3). This change is associated with insulator-metal transition. These results are explained by a model similar to Anderson localization, in which shallow semi-localized states are formed originating from random distribution of Ga3+ and Zn2+ ions in the intrinsic crystal structure of InGaO3(ZnO)(5). The present conclusion suggests that electron densities larger than N-th are necessary to attain high performances in drift carrier devices fabricated using InGaO3(ZnO)(5). It was demonstrated that transparent filed-effect transistors exhibited good performances such as a "normally-off characteristics", an on/off current ratios as large as 10(5), and a field-effect mobility similar to80 cm(2) (Vs)(-1) when high-k material, amorphous HfOx, was used as a gate insulator.
  • H Ohta, K Nomura, H Hiramatsu, K Ueda, T Kamiya, M Hirano, H Hosono SOLID-STATE ELECTRONICS 47 (12) 2261 -2267 2003年12月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Recent advancements of transparent oxide semiconductors (TOS) toward new frontiers of "oxide electronics" are reviewed based on our efforts, categorized as "novel functional materials", "heteroepitaxial growth techniques", and "device fabrications". Topics focused in this paper are: (1) highly conductive ITO thin film with atomically flat surface, (2) p-type TOS material ZnRh2O4, (3) deep-ultraviolet (DUV) transparent conductive oxide beta-Ga2O3 thin film, (4) electrochromic oxyfuolide NbO2F, (5) single-crystalline films of InGaO3(ZnO)(m) grown by reactive solid-phase epitaxy, (6) p-type semiconductor LaCuOS/Se epitaxial films capable of emitting UV- and purple-light, (7) p-n homojunction based on bipolar CuInO2, (8) transparent FET based on single-crystalline InGaO3(ZnO)(5) films, and (9) UV-light emitting diode based on p-n heterojunction. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
  • 上岡 隼人, 平松 秀典, 太田 裕道, 植田 和茂, 神谷 利夫, 平野 正浩, 細野 秀雄 日本物理学会講演概要集 58 (2) 616 -616 2003年08月15日
  • 平松 秀典, 太田 裕道, 植田 和茂 月刊ディスプレイ 9 (5) 78 -83 2003年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • K Ueda, K Takafuji, H Hiramatsu, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono, H Kawazoe CRYSTALLINE OXIDE-SILICON HETEROSTRUCTURES AND OXIDE OPTOELECTRONICS 747 223 -233 2003年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Several Cu(I)-containing layered oxysulfides were selected as candidates for wide-gap p-type semiconductors by extending a concept of a materials design for transparent p-type conducting oxides. The electrical and optical properties of the selected oxysulfides were investigated, and their electronic structures were analyzed by energy band calculations. LaCuOS, Sr2Cu2ZnO2S2 and Sr2CuGaO3S were found to be wide-gap p-type semiconductors, and LaCuOS showed the largest energy gap (E-g=3.1eV) among these layered oxysulfides. It was also found that LaCuOS shows band edge emission under uv excitation at room temperature, which is consistent with the results of the energy band calculations that LaCuOS has a direct-allowed-type energy gap at F point. In further materials research, analogous layered oxychalcogenides such as LaCuOSe and LnCuOS (Ln=Pr, Nd) were found to show similar optical and electrical properties to those of LaCuOS. Therefore, it is considered that the layered crystal structure and the electronic structure are responsible for the wide-gap p-type conductive properties in these materials.
  • S Narushima, H Mizoguchi, H Ohta, M Hirano, K Shimizu, K Ueda, T Kamiya, H Hosono CRYSTALLINE OXIDE-SILICON HETEROSTRUCTURES AND OXIDE OPTOELECTRONICS 747 235 -240 2003年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    An amorphous p-type conductive oxide semiconductor was created based on a mother crystalline material, a p-type conductive ZnRh2O4 spinel. The amorphous film of ZnRh2O4 was deposited by an rf sputtering method. Seebeck coefficient was positive, +78 muVK(-1), indicating that major carrier is a positive hole. A moderate electrical conductivity (2 S cm(-1) at room temperature) for a p-type semiconductor was observed. Optical band gap was estimated to be 2.1 eV. P-n junction diodes with a structure of Au / a-ZnRh2O4 / a-InGaZnO4 / ITO fabricated on glass substrates, operated with a good rectifying characteristics, a rectification current ratio at +/- 5V of similar to10(3). The threshold voltage was 2.1 eV, which corresponds to the band gap energy of the amorphous ZnRh2O4. This is the first discovery of a p-type amorphous oxide and the demonstration of p-n junction all composed of amorphous oxide semiconductors.
  • H Hiramatsu, K Ueda, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono CRYSTALLINE OXIDE-SILICON HETEROSTRUCTURES AND OXIDE OPTOELECTRONICS 747 359 -364 2003年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Epitaxial films of LaCuOS, a wide gap p-type semiconductor, were grown on yittria- stabilized-zirconia (YSZ) (001) or MgO (001) substrates by a reactive solid phase epitaxy (R-SPE) method. Crystal quality, electrical and optical properties on the epitaxial films on each substrate are examined in this paper. Achievement of the heteroepitaxial growth of LaCuOS on the MgO (001) substrate improves optical properties of LaCuOS such as spectral bandwidths and emission intensity, suggesting that the MgO (001) substrate is more preferable than the YSZ (001) for epitaxial growth substrate for LaCuOS.
  • Fabrication of transparent MISFET using InGaO3(ZnO)5 single crystalline thin film with normally insulating nature
    Kenji Nomura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kazushige Ueda, Toshio Kamiya, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 747 267 2003年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 上部電極にITO薄膜を用いたニオブ酸イットリウム薄膜のEL特性
    山口誉滋, 掛本博文, 和田智志, 鶴見敬章, 太田裕道, 細野秀雄 日本セラミックス協会2003年年会、3/22/03-3/24/03、東京 2003年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • H. Ohta, K. Nomura, H. Hiramatsu, T, Suzuki K. Ueda, M. Orita, M. Hirano, Y. Ikuhara, Hideo Hosono MRS Symposium proceedings 747 257 -265 2003年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    We have developed a novel growth method for single-crystalline film of natural superlattice oxides and named the method "Reactive Solid-Phase Epitaxy (R-SPE)." Single-crystalline thin films of homologous series InGaO3(ZnO)(m) (m=integer) are fabricated by the R-SPE method and its growth mechanism, especially a role of ZnO epitaxial layer, is clarified. High-temperature annealing of bi-layer films consisting of an amorphous InGaO3(ZnO)(5) layer deposited at room temperature and an epitaxial ZnO layer on YSZ substrate allows for the growth of single-crystalline film with a controlled chemical composition. The ZnO layer plays an essential role in determining the crystallographic orientation, while the thickness ratio between the two layers controls the film composition.
  • K Nomura, H Ohta, K Ueda, T Kamiya, M Hirano, H Hosono CRYSTALLINE OXIDE-SILICON HETEROSTRUCTURES AND OXIDE OPTOELECTRONICS 747 267 -272 2003年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Transparent metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MISFETs) were fabricated using a single-crystalline thin film of an n-type transparent oxide semiconductor, a homologous compound InGaO3(ZnO)(5), grown by a reactive solid phase epitaxy method. The transparent MISFET exhibited good performances with "nofmally-off characteristics", "an on/off current ratio as large as 10(5)" and "insensitivity to visible light". Field-effect mobility was about 2 cm(2)(VS)(-1)' which is larger than those reported previously for MISFETs fabricated in transparent oxide semiconductors. These improved performance is thought to result from the low defect density and intrinsic-level carrier concentration of the single-crystalline InGaO3(ZnO)(5) film.
  • 佐々木健夫, 松永克志, 太田裕道, 細野秀雄, 山本剛久, 幾原雄一 材料 52 (6) 555 -559 2003年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Thin Cu film was deposited on the (0001) surface of α-Al2O3 by a pulsed-laser deposition technique at substrate temperature of 800°C. The atomic structure of Cu/Al2O3 (0001) interface was characterized by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). It was found that the interface was atomically sharp and the following orientation relationship (OR) was existed (111)Cu//(0001)Al(2)O(3), [11̄0]Cu//[11̄00]Al(2)O(3). In contrast, the OR with geometrically high coherency across the interface was evaluated by the coincidence of reciprocal lattice points method, and the result showed that the preferred OR was (111)Cu//(0001)Al(2)O(3), [112̄]Cu//[11̄00]Al(2)O(3). This OR is not consistent with the experimental results, and suggests that interfacial chemical bonding plays an important role to form the actual OR. In order to understand the nature of the chemical bonding at the interface, HRTEM image simulations were performed and their results were compared with the experimental images. It was found that the Cu(111)/Al2O3(0001) interface terminated at oxygen-layer, which indicates that Cu-O bonds determine the stability of the interface.
  • H Ohta, M Orita, M Hirano, K Ueda, H Hosono INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS B 16 (1-2) 173 -180 2002年01月 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Transparent conductive oxides of ITO, ZnO, beta-Ga2O3, CuGaO2 and SrCu2O2 were grown on single crystal substrates of alpha-Al2O3 and YSZ by pulsed-laser deposition, and their crystallinity was evaluated by using high-resolution X-ray diffraction and electron microscope. Heteroepitaxial growth was observed in spite of relatively large lattice mismatches between film and substrate. A few disordered layers were generated automatically at film/substrate boundary, played buffer layer to suppress propagation of edge dislocations.
  • H Ohta, M Orita, M Hirano, H Hosono ASIAN CERAMIC SCIENCE FOR ELECTRONICS I 214-2 75 -80 2002年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    UV light-emitting diode is realized for the first time using a hetero p-n junction composed of transparent conductive oxides, p-SrCu2O2 and n-ZnO. Ni/SrCu2O2/ZnO/ITO multi-layered film was epitaxially grown on an extremely flat YSZ (111) surface by a pulsed-laser deposition technique. The grown films were processed by a conventional photolithography, followed by reactive ion etching to fabricate p-n heterojunction diode. The resultant device exhibited rectifying I-V characteristics inherent to p-n junction whose turn-on voltage was about 3V relatively sharp electro-luminescence band centered at 382nm was generated when applying the forward bias voltage larger than the turn-on voltage of 3V. The red shift in the EL peak was noticed from that of photo-luminescence (377nm), which was most likely due to the difference in the excited state density between the emission processes. The EL band is attributed to transition in ZnO, probably to that associated with electron-hole plasma. The photo-voltage was also generated when the p-n junction was irradiated with UV light of which energy coincided with both exciton and band-to-band transitions in ZnO.
  • HRTEM and Orientation Relationship of Cu/Al2O3 Interface
    T. Sasaki, K. Matsunaga, T. Yamamoto, H. Ohta, H. Hosono, Y. Ikuhara Proc. of the International Conference on Designing of Interfacial Structures in Advanced Materials and their Joints 237 2002年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 透明導電膜の新展開II「第３章 p型透明酸化物半導体とpnヘテロ接合発光ダイオード」
    太田裕道, 細野秀雄 エレクトロニクス材料・技術シリーズ, シーエムシー出版 41 2002年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • P型アモルファス酸化物の発見とアモルファス酸化物PN接合の形成
    鳴島暁, 溝口拓, 折田政寛, 太田裕道, 平野正浩, 神谷利夫, 清水健一, 細野秀雄 第３５回アモルファス物質に関するセミナーテキスト 63 2002年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • UV-LED composed of p-SrCu2O2 / n-ZnO heterojunction realized for the first time
    J. Sur. Sci. Jpn. 22 419 2001年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 透明酸化物半導体を用いた近紫外発光ダイオードの開発
    セラミックス 36 (4) 285 2001年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 太田裕道, 折田政寛, 河村賢一, 猿倉信彦, 平野正浩, 細野秀雄 応用物理学関係連合講演会講演予稿集 47th (2) 578 2000年03月28日 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • 透明酸化物半導体の新しい展開
    表面 38 (7) 28 2000年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • M Orita, H Ohta, M Hirano, H Hosono, K Morita, H Tanji, H Kawazoe MATERIALS SCIENCE OF NOVEL OXIDE-BASED ELECTRONICS 623 291 -296 2000年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Novel amorphous transparent conductive oxides, InGaO3(ZnO)(m), where m is an integer less than four, was developed. Optical transmittance in the visible region exceeded over 80 % and the electric conductivity at 300 K was as large as 400 S/cm. Both Seebeck and Hall coefficients exhibited negative values, indicating the conduction was n-type. It was suggested that 4s orbital of Zn2+ played a significant role for the formation of the extended state responsible for the conduction, while In3+ acted as a modifier for the stabilization of amorphous state.
  • H Ohta, M Orita, M Hirano, H Hosono, H Kawazoe, H Tanji MATERIALS SCIENCE OF NOVEL OXIDE-BASED ELECTRONICS 623 253 -258 2000年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    High quality ITO thin films were grown hetero-epitaxially on extremely flat substrate of (001) YSZ by a pulsed laser deposition technique at a substrate temperature of 600 degreesC. The crystal orientation relationship between the film and YSZ were confirmed as ITO (001) // YSZ (001) and ITO (010) // YSZ (010), respectively, by HR-XRD and HR-TEM. The carrier densities of the films were almost equal to SnO2 concentration in the films. That is, almost all the doped Sn4+ ions were activated to release electrons to the conduction band. The carrier densities of the films were enhanced up to 1.9x10(21)cm(-3), while the Hall mobility showed a slight, almost linear, decrease from 55 to 40cm(2)V(-1)s(-1) with increasing SnO2 concentration. The low resistivity is due to larger electron mobility, which most likely resulted from good crystal quality of the films. The optical transmissivity of the film exceeded 85% at wavelengths from 340 to 780nm.
  • H Ohta, K Kawamura, M Orita, N Sarukura, M Hirano, H Hosono MATERIALS SCIENCE OF NOVEL OXIDE-BASED ELECTRONICS 623 283 -288 2000年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    Room temperature operation of UV LED is realized for the first time using a hetero p-n junction composed of transparent conductive oxides, p-SrCu2O2 and n-ZnO. Ni/SrCu2O2/ZnO/ITO multi-layered film was epitaxially grown on an. extremely flat YSZ (111) surface by a PLD. The grown films were processed by a conventional photolithography, followed by reactive ion etching to fabricate p-n junction diode. The resultant device exhibited rectifying I-V characteristics inherent to p-n junction whose turn-on voltage was about 1.5V. A relatively sharp electro-luminescence band centered at 382nm was generated when applying the forward bias voltage larger than the turn-on voltage of 3V. The red shift in the EL peak was noticed from that of photo-luminescence (377nm), which was most likely due to the difference in the excited state density between the emission processes. The EL band is attributed to transition in ZnO, probably to that associated with electron-hole plasma. The photo-voltage was also generated when the p-n junction was irradiated with UV light of which energy coincided with both exciton and band-to-band transitions in ZnO.
  • 初めて実現した酸化物紫外発光ダイオード：p-SrCu_2_O_2_/n-ZmO
    太田裕道, 折田政寛, 平野正浩, 細野秀雄 第２８５回蛍光体同学会講演資料集 17 -22 2000年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • M Orita, H Ohta, H Tanji, H Hosono, H Kawazoe FLAT-PANEL DISPLAYS AND SENSORS: PRINCIPLES, MATERIALS AND PROCESSES 558 399 -402 2000年 [査読無し][通常論文]
     
    In2O3 films were deposited on YSZ (001) single crystal surface at 800 degrees C at an oxygen pressure of 14 Pa by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method. A heteroepitaxial relationship between the film and the substrate was seen in TEM photographs and X-ray diffraction measurements. The omega locking curve full width of half maximum (FWHM) of the In2O3 (004) x-ray diffraction was 0.06 degrees. Film conductivities were similar to 10 S/cm or less, while carriers on the order of 10(18)/cm(3) were generated.
  • 折田政寛, 太田裕道, 細野秀雄 表面 38 (7) 344 -352 2000年 [査読無し][通常論文]
  • H Ohta, H Tanji, M Orita, H Hosono, H Kawazoe EPITAXIAL GROWTH-PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS 570 309 -313 1999年 [査読有り][通常論文]
     
    Heteroepitaxial ZnO films were grown on (111) surface of yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) and (0001) surface of sapphire by PLD method, using KrF eximer laser (248nm) in an ultra-high-vacuum chamber. ZnO grown on YSZ (111) at the substrate temperature of 800 degrees C had an epitaxial relationship at the ZnO/YSZ interface of ZnO [11 (2) over bar 0]//YSZ [1 (1) over bar 0]. Hexagonal-shaped grains were observed whose surfaces were atomically flat. The grain size of ZnO increased and the Hall mobility rose toward 1400nm and 75cm(2)/Vs, respectively as film thickness increased from 10 nln to 800 nm.
  • K Koumoto, H Ohta, WS Seo PROCEEDINGS ICT '96 - FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THERMOELECTRICS 172 -175 1996年 [査読有り][通常論文]

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    太田裕道, 小出浩貴, 高木利哉, 藤本隆史
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    旭 良司, 佐伯優美, 太田裕道
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  • 特許4872050:熱電素子    2012年02月08日
    旭 良司, 増岡優美, 太田裕道, 栗田大佑  
    特開2009-117430
  • 特許4762911:熱電変換材料及び熱電変換材料の製造方法    2011年08月31日
    細野秀雄, 平野正浩, 太田裕道, 河本邦仁
  • 特許4755770:基板回転・加熱装置並びにこれを用いた成膜装置及び分析装置    2011年08月24日
    折田政寛, 太田裕道, 平野正浩, 細野秀雄, 田 昭治, 片桐俊郎, 三村 宗  
    特開２００２－２８０３０６
  • 特許4620046:薄膜トランジスタ及びその製造方法  
    細野秀雄, 平野正浩, 太田裕道, 神谷利夫, 野村研二
  • 特許4568828:アモルファス酸化物薄膜    2010年10月27日
    細野秀雄, 平野正浩, 太田裕道, 神谷利夫, 野村研二  
    特開2010-219538
  • 特許4568827:アモルファス酸化物薄膜の気相成膜方法    2010年10月27日
    細野秀雄, 平野正浩, 太田裕道, 神谷利夫, 野村研二  
    特開2010-212696
  • 特許4480809:酸化インジウム薄膜及びその製造方法    2010年06月16日
    太田裕道, 折田政寛  
    特許4480809
  • 特許4397511:低抵抗ＩＴＯ薄膜及びその製造方法    2010年01月13日
    太田裕道, 折田政寛  
    特許4397511
  • 特許4397451:透明導電性薄膜及びその製造方法    2010年01月13日
    折田政寛, 太田裕道  
    特許4397451
  • 特許4298194:自然超格子ホモロガス単結晶薄膜とその製造方法    2009年07月15日
    細野秀雄, 植田和茂, 折田政寛, 太田裕道, 平野正浩  
    特許4298194
  • 特許4237861:高単結晶性酸化亜鉛薄膜及び製造方法    2009年03月11日
    太田裕道, 折田政寛, 細野秀雄, 川副博司  
    特許4237861
  • 特許4170454:透明導電性酸化物薄膜を有する物品及びその製造方法    2008年10月22日
    森田 清, 太田裕道, 細野秀雄, 川副博司  
    特許4170454
  • 特許4164563:酸化物半導体ＰＮ接合デバイス及びその製造方法    2008年10月15日
    太田裕道, 細野秀雄, 神谷利夫, 平野正浩  
    特許４１６４５６３
  • 特許4164562:ホモロガス薄膜を活性層として用いる透明薄膜電界効果型トランジスタ    2008年10月15日
    太田裕道, 細野秀雄, 神谷利夫, 平野正浩  
    特許４１６４５６２
  • 特許4083486:ＬｎＣｕＯ（Ｓ，Ｓｅ，Ｔｅ）単結晶薄膜とその製造方法、及び該単結晶薄膜を用いた光デバイス又は電子デバイス    2008年04月30日
    細野秀雄, 平野正浩, 折田政寛, 太田裕道, 平松秀典, 植田和茂  
    特許４０８３４８６
  • 特許4083396:紫外透明導電膜とその製造方法    2008年04月30日
    折田政寛, 太田裕道, 平野正浩, 細野秀雄  
    特許４０８３３９６
  • 特許4014473:超平坦ｐ型酸化物半導体ＮｉＯ単結晶薄膜    2007年11月28日
    細野秀雄, 太田裕道, 神谷利夫, 平野正浩  
    特許４０１４４７３
  • 特許3969959:透明酸化物積層膜及び透明酸化物ｐ－ｎ接合ダイオードの作製方法    2007年09月05日
    細野秀雄, 植田和茂, 太田裕道, 平野正浩  
    特許３９６９９５９
  • 特許3824289:透明導電性薄膜    2006年09月20日
    折田政寛, 太田裕道  
    特許３８２４２８９
  • 特許3717632:電池の製造方法    2005年11月16日
    藤井孝則, 前田紫織, 太田裕道, 中川 弘, 児玉康伸, 西本好宏, 園崎 勉, 中根育朗, 寺司和生, 生川 訓  
    特許３７１７６３２
  • 特許3588225:薄型密閉電池    2004年11月10日
    西本好宏, 太田裕道, 前田紫織, 中川 弘, 児玉康伸, 山崎幹也, 園崎 勉, 藤井孝則, 中根育朗, 寺司和生, 生川 訓  
    特許３５８８２２５
  • 特許3531865:超平坦透明導電膜およびその製造方法    2004年05月31日
    太田裕道, 折田政寛, 平野正浩, 細野秀雄  
    特許３５３１８６５
  • 特許3398638:発光ダイオードおよび半導体レーザー    2003年04月21日
    細野秀雄, 太田裕道, 折田政寛, 河村賢一, 猿倉信彦, 平野正浩  
    特許３３９８６３８
  • 特許3378761:ポリマー電解質電池    2003年02月17日
    山崎幹也, 前田紫織, 太田裕道, 中川 弘, 児玉康伸, 西本好宏, 園崎 勉, 藤井孝則, 中根育朗, 寺司和生, 生川 訓  
    特許３３７８７６１
  • 特許3354430:固体電解質電池及びその製造方法    2002年12月09日
    中川 弘, 太田裕道, 前田紫織, 児玉康伸, 山崎幹也, 西本好宏, 園崎 勉, 藤井孝則, 中根育朗, 寺司和生, 生川 訓  
    特許３３５４４３０

受賞

  • 2021年11月 日本セラミックス協会 第76回（2021年度）学術賞
     電子伝導性酸化物の薄膜化と熱電特性に関する研究 
    受賞者: 太田裕道
  • 2015年03月 北海道大学 平成26年度北海道大学研究総長賞 優秀賞
     
    受賞者: 太田 裕道
  • 2010年 第32回（2010年度）応用物理学会優秀論文賞
  • 2005年 平成16年度日本セラミックス協会進歩賞
  • 2000年 第８回（2000年春季）応用物理学会講演奨励賞

共同研究・競争的資金等の研究課題

  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(A)
    研究期間 : 2022年04月 -2026年03月 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道
  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業
    研究期間 : 2019年06月 -2024年03月 
    代表者 : 松永 克志, 阿部 真之, 遊佐 斉, 柴田 直哉, 平山 雅章, 溝口 照康, 太田 裕道, 北岡 諭
     
    本領域研究では、世界最高水準の電子状態計算、モデル実験、ナノ計測を三本柱とし、機能材料、エネルギー材料、構造材料分野で高い研究業績を上げている研究者らと一体になって、機能コアの概念に立脚した新しい材料科学の学理を構築する。総括班ではこの領域の目的を達成するため、以下のような活動を行った。 1) 2021年9月28日および2022年3月30日に総括班会議を開催し、本領域の研究進捗状況について議論した。また、今後の領域運営や計画班運営について、各計画班研究代表者に助言・指導を与えた。さらに、2021年9月28日に領域全体会議をオンライン開催し、領域内研究者との意見交換を通じて今後の研究連携を検討した。2)連携研究および設備有効利用の促進のため設置している、計算解析センター、ナノ計測センター、モデル試料センターについて運営状況の確認や今後の方針策定を行った。3)若手育成支援としてオンラインでの若手の会（若手コラボツアー）を計3回実施した。4)成果公表活動として、2022年3月30日に2021年度公開シンポジウムをオンライン開催した。また国内学会での公募シンポジウムを1件、国際会議でのシンポジウムを1件主催し、機能コアのコンセプトを国内外に広く公表・周知した。5)アウトリーチ活動として、名古屋大学で開催された「テクノフェア名大」で本領域のオンラインブース展示を行い、一般も含む参加者に広く本領域のコンセプトを周知した。またSNS等を活用した本領域の情報発信にも取り組んだ。
  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業 新学術領域研究(研究領域提案型)
    研究期間 : 2019年06月 -2024年03月 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道, 寺崎 一郎, 齊藤 圭司
     
    物質の原子スケールにおける熱伝導や電子伝導を可視化することができれば、新しい材料やデバイス開発に繋がる。本研究では、目に見える大きさのものとは全く異なる熱輸送特性や電子輸送特性を示す原子スケールの特殊な界面を「機能コア」と位置づけ、超精密な薄膜・デバイス作製技術を駆使して機能コアを導入したモデル材料を作製し、相界面における熱輸送特性や電子輸送特性を調査し、巨大機能の発現とその制御を目指している。太田Gr.では、遷移金属酸化物エピタキシャル薄膜の熱伝導率を計測した。各種薄膜およびデバイスの機能コアの可視化については、A01(ア)(イ)班、A02(ウ)(エ)班、必要時に随時海外共同研究者に分析・解析を依頼した。寺崎Gr.では、機能性熱伝導物質を設計し、単結晶育成を行った。齊藤Gr.では、太田Gr.で得られた熱伝導率の結果を踏まえて機能コアの界面熱抵抗のモデル化を行った。また、太田Gr.では下記の研究成果に関してプレス発表を行った（2020年11月2日）。層状コバルト酸化物Na3/4CoO2薄膜のナトリウムイオンを様々な金属イオン（Ca1/3, Sr1/3, Ba1/3）に置き換えた結果、金属イオン層が重くなるにつれて、電気的な特性は変化せず、熱伝導率だけが減少することを突き止め、最終的に重いバリウムイオンに置き換えたとき、室温で熱電変換性能指数ZTが0.11に達することを発見した。一般に、性能指数ZTは高温になるほど上昇することから、真に安定で実用的な熱電変換材料の実現が期待される。
  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業
    研究期間 : 2019年04月 -2021年03月 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道, ZHANG YUQIAO
     
    外国人特別研究員・張 雨橋 博士との共同研究では、酸化物熱電材料の高性能化をターゲットとして、層状構造を有する酸化物の熱伝導率の精密計測や、固溶体形成に起因する格子歪と熱伝導率の関係の調査などを行った。張博士は酸化物薄膜試料の作製、熱電特性の計測、熱伝導率の計測の実験を担当した。受入研究者である太田は研究計画作成を行った。 本研究の特筆すべき成果は、層状コバルト酸化物Ba1/3CoO2薄膜が、室温における熱電変換性能指数ZT = 0.11を示すことを見出したことである。この値は公表されている酸化物（信頼性のある値として）の室温におけるZTの中では最大である。 また、自然超格子InGaO3(ZnO)m（mは自然数）単結晶薄膜の超格子に対して直交方向の熱伝導率が、多結晶InGaO3(ZnO)mよりも低いことを発見した。単結晶なのに多結晶よりも熱を通さないという、この驚くべき結果は、熱電材料の低熱伝導率化に向けた材料設計指針を与えるだけでなく、超低熱伝導セラミックス実現のための重要な知見となる。 さらに、これまで熱伝導率に及ぼす電子の寄与が大きいとされてきたSrTiO3－SrNbO3－LaTiO3系固溶体を薄膜化し、熱伝導率を精密計測した結果、固溶体形成による格子熱伝導率の減少が顕著に起こるため、キャリア電子濃度が極めて高いにもかかわらず、熱伝導率は低いことが分かった。 以上のように、本共同研究では、酸化物熱電材料の高性能化の鍵となる低熱伝導率化に関する重要な知見を得ることができた。
  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(A)
    研究期間 : 2017年04月 -2021年03月 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道
     
    本研究では、パルスレーザー堆積法や反応性固相エピタキシャル成長法を駆使してナノ周期平行平板構造薄膜を作製し、その物質、組成、角度と熱伝導率の関係をTDTR法によって精密に計測することで、「ナノ周期平行平板構造が熱伝導率に及ぼす影響を実験的に解明する」ことを目標している。2018年度は、計画通り、反応性固相エピタキシャル成長法によって自然超格子InGaO3(ZnO)m単結晶薄膜を作製し、超格子に垂直方向の熱伝導率を計測した。m値を大きく変化させた単結晶薄膜を用いて計測することで、単結晶であるにも関わらず、層に直交方向の熱伝導率はアモルファス状態よりも低いことが明らかになった。これは、結晶格子を持たないアモルファスよりも、InO2層/GaO(ZnO)m層の界面熱抵抗が熱伝導率を下げるのに有用であることを示す結果である。現在は、超格子が傾斜した自然超格子単結晶薄膜を用いて、層に平行方向の熱伝導率を計測している。また、層状構造を有するAxCoO2系熱電材料や、温度やイオンの脱挿入によって金属-絶縁体転移を起こす遷移金属酸化物の薄膜作製と、その熱伝導率計測を行った。AxCoO2では、Aイオンの原子量の増加に伴い、熱伝導率の異方性が減少し、層に平行な方向の熱伝導率が下げられることが分かってきた。また、NbO2薄膜やWOx薄膜などの熱伝導率計測を行い、いくつかは既に論文としてまとめることができた。論文、招待講演などの実績（数）は、原著論文：12報、招待講演：12件、著書：0（執筆済2）、新聞等報道（海外含）：39件、など。
  • エネルギー応用に向けた層状遷移金属酸化物の機能化
    日本学術振興会：二国間交流事業（韓国との共同研究）
    研究期間 : 2018年04月 -2020年03月 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道
  • 旭硝子財団：2017年度 ステップアップ助成
    研究期間 : 2017年04月 -2020年03月 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道
  • 三菱財団：平成29年度 自然科学部門 助成金
    研究期間 : 2017年10月 -2018年09月 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道
  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業
    研究期間 : 2015年11月 -2018年03月 
    代表者 : 田中 功, 柴田 直哉, 太田 裕道, 松永 克志, 武藤 俊介, 谷口 尚, 北岡 諭, 菅野 了次, 高草木 達, 津田 宏治
     
    本国際活動支援班では，国内外での国際会議，シンポジウム，ワークショップなどの機会に，領域メンバーやポスドク研究者，大学院生などが積極的に成果発表を行うことで，国際的な研究ネットワークの構築，その場への若手研究者の参加促進と，国際的な研究のリーダーシップを取ることに努めた．また，領域での成果をまとめた英文での書籍と雑誌特集号の出版および大学院生および若手研究者の海外派遣を行った．
  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業
    研究期間 : 2013年06月 -2018年03月 
    代表者 : 田中 功, 松永 克志, 柴田 直哉, 武藤 俊介, 谷口 尚, 太田 裕道, 北岡 諭, 菅野 了次, 高草木 達, 津田 宏治, 足立 裕彦, 佐久間 健人, 髙野 幹夫, 森 博太郎, 樋口 知之
     
    総括班では，領域の全体的な研究方針の策定，企画調整，研究成果の適正評価，研究連携の円滑化・促進，公募による新テーマ発掘，若手育成プログラムの推進，公開講演会・シンポジウム等の企画・実行，海外のトップグループとの情報交換・協力体制構築，国民との科学・技術対話推進，産業界への情報発信などを行った． また，個別の成果を統合し，新しい学術基盤の創成に貢献するために，領域代表者を編集者として，書籍"Nanoinfomatics"を出版した.
  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(B)
    研究期間 : 2014年04月 -2018年03月 
    代表者 : 寺崎 一郎, 太田 裕道, 河野 浩, 岡崎 竜二, 田辺 賢士, 藤田 優, 白石 祐芽
     
    本研究の目的は、酸化物絶縁体に光を照射することによって伝導体を創りだし、その伝導パラメタを精密に計測し、光ドープされたキャリアの輸送特性と微視的機構を明らかにすることである。 具体的には、我々はZnS、ZnO、SrTiO3、CuO、La2CuO4、CuFeS2など様々な絶縁体に可視から紫外領域の光を照射し、光伝導率、光ホール係数、光ゼーベック係数などを定量的に計測し、光ドープされたキャリアの輸送特性を明らかにした。特にSrTiO3では量子常誘電性により熱起電力が遮蔽されることを明らかにした。ZnOにおいては、薄膜、単結晶、多結晶で光ゼーベック係数は同じ値で飽和することを見出した。
  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業 新学術領域研究(研究領域提案型)
    研究期間 : 2013年06月 -2018年03月 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道, 平松 秀典, 片瀬 貴義, 山ノ内 路彦
     
    原子レベルで厚さ制御された薄膜「ナノ層」を作製し、新しい材料機能の探索を行うとともに、作製した試料を他班に提供することでナノ構造情報の開拓に取り組んだ。主な結果を列挙する。1. 酸化物人工超格子で熱を電気に変換する性能をバルク比2倍の増強に成功した、2. 透明酸化物半導体薄膜の電子移動度抑制の起源を解明し、高電子移動度を実現した、3. 半導体二次元電子ガスが高い熱電変換出力因子を示すことを見出した、4. 光透過率・電気抵抗率・磁気的性質を同時に変えられる薄膜デバイスを実現した、5. 金属テープ基板上で、実用レベルに匹敵する臨界電流密度を示す鉄系超伝導薄膜を実現した。
  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(A)
    研究期間 : 2013年04月 -2017年03月 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道, 片瀬 貴義
     
    ナノ多孔性ガラス中のH+/OH-イオンと酸化物半導体の酸化・還元反応を利用したAFMリソグラフィーによる極細一次元電子ガス（1DEG）の電界誘起と超巨大熱電能の観測を目指した。形状的特徴から、SrTiO3-1DEGのAFMリソグラフィーに成功したが、誘起された1DEGの安定性が極めて低く、熱電能計測には至らなかった。安定に酸化・還元反応が起こる物質の探索を行った結果、絶縁体VO2⇔金属HxVO2、絶縁体SrCoO2.5⇔金属SrCoO3、絶縁体WO3⇔金属HWO3の可逆変化に成功し、論文・新聞・TV上で公表した。上記物質を用いてAFMリソグラフィーを行うことで1DEGが作製できると考えている。
  • 超微細熱電材料用汎用熱電能計測装置の開発
    旭硝子財団：平成26年度研究助成金
    研究期間 : 2014年04月 -2016年03月 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道
  • 二次元電子層の電界制御と熱起電力に関する研究
    科学技術振興機構：さきがけ
    研究期間 : 2008年10月 -2012年03月 
    代表者 : 太田裕道
  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(B)
    研究期間 : 2010年 -2012年 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道
     
    酸化物半導体SrTiO3単結晶上にトップゲート型薄膜トランジスタ構造を作製し、次にゲート電圧印加によって形成される極薄2DEG層の電子輸送及び熱電能Sを詳細に測定・解析した。その結果、(1)用いるゲート絶縁体として含水ナノ多孔質ガラス(CAN:H.Ohtaetal.,NatureCommun.1:118(2010);Adv.Mater.24,740(2012))が極めて有用であり、(2)含水ナノ多孔質ガラスにより極薄2DEGが誘起できるのはECBM>EH2の酸化物半導体であることを明らかにした。また、赤外線センサー特性を決定づける熱電特性についてバルク-人工超格子-電界誘起極薄2DEGの比較を行ったところ、体積キャリア濃度<3×1020cm-3では電界誘起2DEGとバルクの熱電特性は変わらないが、4×1020cm-3以上のキャリア濃度において極薄2DEGは人工超格子と同様にバルクの5倍の熱電能(=25倍の性能指数ZT~2)を示し、赤外線センサーとして有用であることが分かった。
  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業 特定領域研究
    研究期間 : 2010年 -2011年 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道
     
    SrTiO_3人工超格子中に閉じ込められた極薄二次元電子層はバルクの数倍の巨大熱電能を示す[H.Ohta et al., Nature Mater, 6,129(2007)]ことから、高効率熱電材料の設計指針を与えるモデルとして有望である。本研究では、srTiO_3単結晶電界効果トランジスタへのゲート電圧印加によりゲート絶縁体/SrTiO_3単結晶界面に高密度で蓄積される二次元電子層を可視化し、極薄二次元電子層の巨大熱電能の起源を明らかにすることを目的とした。具体的には高分解能電子顕微鏡観察ならびにデバイスシミュレーションにより、ゲート絶縁体/SrTiO_3界面に蓄積された電界誘起二次元電子層を可視化し、熱電能との関係を調査した。本特定領域内AO1ナノ計測(ア)班との連携研究により,(1)ゲート絶縁体薄膜が水で満たされた直径約10nmのナノボアを30体積パーセント含み[H.Ohta et al., Nature Communications 1:118(2010).]、(2)ゲート電圧印加によってSrTiO_3表面に押し付けられたナノボア中のH_3O^+イオンが、(3)SrTiO_3中の残留キャリア電子を強力に引き寄せることで、バルクの5倍の巨大熱電能を示す極薄二次元電子層(究極の機能元素)が生成することが明らかになった[H.Ohta et al., Adv. Mater. 24,740-744(2012).]。以上の研究から、機能元素「極薄二次元電子層」を熱電材料の表面に誘起し、巨大熱電能という有用な機能を発現させるための「水電気分解による二次元電子層の電界誘起の学理」を構築することに成功した。また、本研究で得られた水電気分解による二次元電子層の作製手法を応用し、一次元AFMリソグラフィーを行うことで更に大きな熱電能を示す材料が創製できると考えられる。
  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業 特定領域研究
    研究期間 : 2008年 -2009年 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道
     
    本公募研究の目的は、(1)誘電体人工超格子やヘテロ酸化物界面近傍に誘起される二次元電子ガスの電子状態と量子サイズ効果の相関を明らかにすること、(2)誘電体中の二次元電子ガスを積極的に活用した機能材料設計指針を提案することである。二次元電子ガス近傍の原子・電子状態を高いエネルギー分解能で捉えることにより、巨大Seebeck係数のオリジンを解き明かし、誘電体中の二次元電子ガスを積極的に活用した材料設計指針を提案することが可能と考えている。SrTiO_3/SrTi_<0.8>Nb_<0.2>O_3人工超格子やTiO_2/SrTiO_3などの誘電体ヘテロ界面のSrTiO_31単位格子層(0.3905nm)に局在化した高濃度の電子ガスは、バルクの5倍に相当する巨大熱起電力(Seebeck係数)を示すことから、未だ実現していない酸化物熱電変換材料のひとつの開発指針として注目されている。Seebeck係数の大きさは、フェルミエネルギーにおける伝導帯状態密度(DOS(E))のエネルギー微分(∂DOS(E)/∂E)に依存するため、量子サイズ効果によるDOS(E)の増大が巨大熱起電力の起源と考えられている。また、Seebeck係数は伝導電子濃度の関数であるため、伝導電子濃度を連続的に変化させながらSeebeck係数を計測することでDOS(E)の情報を得ることができる。平成21年度は、誘電体ヘテロ界面の電子濃度を連続的に変化させるため誘電体をチャネルとした電界効果トランジスタを作製し、絶縁体/SrTiO_3および絶縁体/KTaO_3ヘテロ界面のSeebeck係数の電界変調に成功した。
  • 局在化した二次元電子ガスを有する誘電体人工超格子の作製と熱電変換材料への応用
    NEDO：産業技術研究助成事業費助成金
    研究期間 : 2006年01月 -2008年12月 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道
  • 日本学術振興会：科学研究費助成事業 若手研究(A)
    研究期間 : 2006年 -2008年 
    代表者 : 太田 裕道
     
    人工宝石として知られ、毒性がなく、融点が高いSrTiO_3を用いた熱電変換材料を創製した。精密な超薄膜技術により、電子を生成させた厚さ0.4nmの金属SrTiO_3:Nb層と、絶縁性SrTiO_3からなるサンドイッチ構造を作製することで、二次元平面に高濃度の伝導電子(1021cm^<-3>)を溜め込んだ結果、熱起電力が同濃度の電子を生成させたバルクSrTiO_3の約5倍と大きく、熱電変換性能指数ZT(=[熱起電力]×[熱起電力]×[導電率]×[温度]÷[熱伝導率])が既存重金属材料の約2倍になることを見出した。

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  • 電子材料学特論
    開講年度 : 2021年
    課程区分 : 修士課程
    開講学部 : 情報科学研究科
    キーワード : エレクトロニクスと電子材料, 結晶構造と結晶物理, 電子材料の評価技術, 基幹半導体材料, 異種半導体接合材料, 誘電体および磁性材料, 酸化物半導体, 結晶成長法
  • 電子材料学特論
    開講年度 : 2021年
    課程区分 : 修士課程
    開講学部 : 情報科学院
    キーワード : エレクトロニクスと電子材料, 結晶構造と結晶物理, 電子材料の評価技術, 基幹半導体材料, 異種半導体接合材料, 誘電体および磁性材料, 酸化物半導体, 結晶成長法
  • 大学院共通授業科目（一般科目）：自然科学・応用科学
    開講年度 : 2021年
    課程区分 : 修士課程
    開講学部 : 大学院共通科目
    キーワード : ナノ構造、微細加工、光機能性材料、光化学、液晶、分子性物質、導電性、磁性、薄膜、電子顕微鏡、走査型プローブ顕微鏡、ナノワイヤー、二次元電子ガス、物性理論
  • 電子材料学特論
    開講年度 : 2021年
    課程区分 : 博士後期課程
    開講学部 : 情報科学研究科
    キーワード : エレクトロニクスと電子材料, 結晶構造と結晶物理, 電子材料の評価技術, 基幹半導体材料, 異種半導体接合材料, 誘電体および磁性材料, 酸化物半導体, 結晶成長法
  • 電子材料学特論
    開講年度 : 2021年
    課程区分 : 博士後期課程
    開講学部 : 情報科学院
    キーワード : エレクトロニクスと電子材料, 結晶構造と結晶物理, 電子材料の評価技術, 基幹半導体材料, 異種半導体接合材料, 誘電体および磁性材料, 酸化物半導体, 結晶成長法
  • 電気電子工学実験Ⅰ
    開講年度 : 2021年
    課程区分 : 学士課程
    開講学部 : 工学部
    キーワード : バイポーラトランジスタ，増幅回路，MOSFET，CMOS，演算増幅器，論理回路，順序回路，ディジタル回路
  • 電気電子工学実験Ⅱ
    開講年度 : 2021年
    課程区分 : 学士課程
    開講学部 : 工学部
    キーワード : 偏光，旋光，回折，屈折，結晶構造，X線回折，半導体物性，ホール効果，電気磁気エネルギー，電力
  • 電気電子工学実験Ⅲ
    開講年度 : 2021年
    課程区分 : 学士課程
    開講学部 : 工学部
    キーワード : 半導体プロセス，MOSFET，集積回路特性評価，SPICE，回路シミュレーション，アセンブリ言語
  • 環境と人間（1単位）
    開講年度 : 2021年
    課程区分 : 学士課程
    開講学部 : 全学教育
    キーワード : 最先端技術、ナノテクノロジー、光科学、極微細技術、自己組織化、ナノ材料、半導体、高分子、超分子、フォトニクス、エレクトロニクス、レーザー、物理、化学、量子
  • 化学Ⅰ
    開講年度 : 2021年
    課程区分 : 学士課程
    開講学部 : 全学教育
    キーワード : 原子の構造、原子軌道、化学結合、混成軌道、物質の三態、電解質溶液
  • 電子デバイス工学
    開講年度 : 2021年
    課程区分 : 学士課程
    開講学部 : 工学部
    キーワード : 半導体、電子と正孔（ホール）、ダイオード、トランジスタ、集積回路、受光素子、発光素子、表示素子

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  • 2021年4月1日 - 2023年3月31日 電子科学研究所副所長
  • 2023年4月1日 - 2025年3月31日 電子科学研究所副所長

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  • 2022年04月 - 現在   薄膜材料デバイス研究会   組織委員
  • 2017年04月 - 現在   日本セラミックス協会東北・北海道支部   幹事
  • 2008年04月 - 現在   日本熱電学会   評議員
  • 2004年04月 - 2006年03月   日本セラミックス協会   学術論文誌編集委員

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