{"id":4955,"date":"2018-02-26T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineernewsnetwork.com\/blog\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2018-03-08T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T11:20:45","slug":"splitting-crystals-for-2d-metallic-conductivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineernewsnetwork.com\/blog\/splitting-crystals-for-2d-metallic-conductivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Splitting crystals for 2D metallic conductivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheets of electrons that are highly mobile in only two dimensions, known as 2D electron gas, have unique properties that can be leveraged for faster and novel electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have been exploring 2D electron gas, which was only discovered in 2004, to see how it can be used in superconductors, actuators, and electronic memory devices, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Japan\u2019s Tohoku University, with an international team of colleagues, recently identified the atomic structure of a group of perovskite-related materials showing interesting 2D conductive properties.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7565662001938327\" data-ad-slot=\"7585079586\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nThe materials are made of strontium, niobium and oxygen atoms, with a layered structure derived from perovskite. These strontium niobate compounds show promise for developing advanced electronics because of their \u2018quasi-one-dimensional\u2019 metallic conductivity.<\/p>\n<p>Yuichi Ikuhara, of <span class=\"highlight highlight-blue\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpi-aimr.tohoku.ac.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tohoku University<\/a><\/span>\u2019s Advanced Institute for Materials Research, with Johannes Georg Bednorz, of Z\u00fcrich Research Laboratory ,and colleagues used atom-resolved scanning transmission electron microscopy combined with theoretical calculations to learn how adding oxygen atoms to strontium niobates affects their conductivity.<\/p>\n<p>Four different materials formed depending on the concentration of oxygen atoms.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that three of the materials were conductors of electricity while the fourth was an insulator.<\/p>\n<p>At the atomic scale, they discovered the materials were formed of alternating chain-like and zigzag slabs.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the concentration of oxygen atoms, the chain-like slabs were two, three, or four layers thick, sometimes varying within the same material.<\/p>\n<p>The zigzag slabs were insulating layers in all the materials, while the chain-like slabs were conducting layers in three of the four materials.<\/p>\n<p>The team determined that local electrical conductivity within the material directly depended on the shapes of the niobate octahedra in the layers.<\/p>\n<p>When positive ions of niobium were displaced toward the centers of the niobate octahedra, a local conducting nature was induced.<\/p>\n<p>2D conducting layers are commonly formed by creating an interface between two insulators.<\/p>\n<p>It should now be possible to achieve the same goal by segmenting 3D conducting materials into stacks of 2D conducting layers separated by insulating layers, the researchers say in their study published in the journal ACS Nano. 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