Surface-based manipulation of point defects in rutile TiO2

Alice G. Hollister; Prashun Gorai; Edmund G. Seebauer

doi:10.1063/1.4810073

Surface-based manipulation of point defects in rutile TiO₂

Alice G. Hollister, Prashun Gorai, Edmund G. Seebauer

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Abstract

Through isotopic self-diffusion measurements, the present work resolves a discrepancy in the literature about the primary oxygen-related point defect in rutile TiO₂ by showing that suitably prepared surfaces can controllably inject large numbers of an exceptionally mobile defect. Results strongly suggest that this defect is the oxygen interstitial, whose existence in TiO₂ has been predicted computationally but never experimentally confirmed. The surface pathway offers an approach for replacing donor oxygen vacancies with acceptor oxygen interstitials facilitating manipulation of near-surface electronic bands.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	231601
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	102
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4810073
State	Published - Jun 10 2013

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