In: Physical Review B - Condensed matter and materials physics, 2012, vol. 85, no. 19, p. 195111
We present both theoretical ab-initio results within the Hedin's GW approximation and experimental angle-resolved photoemission and scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements on TiSe₂. With respect to the density-functional Kohn-Sham metallic picture, the many-body GW self-energy leads to a ≈0.2-eV band-gap insulator consistent with our STS spectra at 5 K. The highest valence and the lowest...
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In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2017, vol. 121, no. 8, p. 4363–4367
Ultrathin MgO films grown on Ag(001) have been investigated using X-ray and ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopies for oxide films successively exposed to Mg and O₂ flux. Studying work functions and layer-resolved Auger shifts allows us to keep track of band profiles from the oxide surface to the interface and reveal the charge- transfer mechanisms underlying the controlled creation of...
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In: Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2020, vol. 7, no. 23, p. 2001227
Nanostructured silver stands out among other plasmonic materials because its optical losses are the lowest of all metals. However, nanostructured silver rapidly degrades under ambient conditions, preventing its direct use in most plasmonic applications. Here, a facile and robust method for the preparation of highly stable nanostructured silver morphologies is introduced. 3D nanostructured...
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In: Physical Review Letters, 2014, vol. 112, no. 19, p. 197001
The transition-metal dichalcogenide 1T−TiSe₂is a quasi-two-dimensional layered material with a charge density wave (CDW) transition temperature of TCDW≈200 K. Self-doping effects for crystals grown at different temperatures introduce structural defects, modify the temperature-dependent resistivity, and strongly perturbate the CDW phase. Here, we study the structural and doping nature...
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In: Europhysics Letters, 2010, vol. 92, no. 4, p. 47003
We present angle-resolved photoemission experiments on 1T-TiSe₂ at temperatures ranging from 13 K to 288 K. The data evidence a dramatic renormalization of the conduction band below 100 K, whose origin can be related to the new potential responsible for the charge density wave phase at low temperature in this system. The renormalization translates into a substantial effective mass...
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In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 2012, vol. 85, no. 23, p. 235150
To address the fluctuation regime above the critical temperature of the charge-density-wave phase of 1T-TiSe₂, we perform calculations using the Bethe-Salpeter equation for treating strong electron-hole correlations. Calculated photoemission intensity maps are in good agreement with the measured ones and provide a deeper understanding of the phase transition in terms of an electronic...
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In: Physical Review B, 2016, vol. 93, no. 12, p. 125102
The material ZrTe3 is a well-known example of an incommensurate periodic lattice distortion (PLD) at low temperatures due to a charge density wave (CDW). Previous studies have found a sharp boundary as a function of pressure between CDW below 5 GPa and bulk superconductivity above this value. We present a study of low-temperature-high-pressure single crystal x-ray diffraction along with ab initio...
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In: Physical Review B, 2015, vol. 91, no. 16, p. 161410
We report layer-resolved measurements of the unoccupied electronic structure of ultrathin MgO films grown on Ag(001). The metal-induced gap states at the metal/oxide interface, the oxide band gap, and a surface core exciton involving an image-potential state of the vacuum are revealed through resonant Auger spectroscopy of the MgKL23L23 Auger transition. Our results demonstrate how to obtain new...
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In: Physical Review Letters, 2011, vol. 106, no. 10, p. 106404
We address the lattice deformation of 1T-TiSe₂ within the exciton condensate phase. We show that, at low temperature, condensed excitons influence the lattice through electron-phonon interaction. It is found that at zero temperature, in the exciton condensate phase of 1T-TiSe₂, this exciton condensate exerts a force on the lattice generating ionic displacements comparable in amplitude to what...
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In: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018, vol. 6, no. 4, p. 1850–1857
Increasing the stability of perovskite solar cells is a major challenge for commercialization. The highest efficiencies so far have been achieved in perovskite solar cells employing mesoporous TiO2 (m-TiO2). One of the major causes of performance loss in these m-TiO2-based perovskite solar cells is induced by UV- radiation. This UV instability can be solved by replacing TiO2 with SnO2; thus ...
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