Motion of Positively Charged Muonium Centres in Transparent Conducting Oxides

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We propose further zero-field muon spin depolarization measurements at temperatures above 300K in order to determine barriers for thermal diffusion of positively charged muonium in ZnO, TiO2, and other transparent conducting oxides. We have found that the Mu+ centre undergoes local quantum tunnelling and a site change, but not extended motion, up to 380K in ZnO and 300K in TiO2. We require access to higher temperatures where the Mu+ centres become diffusively mobile in order to determine the barrier energy for classical thermal motion in selected transparent conducting oxides. Results are directly relevant to hydrogen diffusion in these materials. [Included in the PhD project for Brittany Baker.]

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24086010
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24086010
Provenance
Creator Professor Roger Lichti; Dr Brittany Baker; Dr P.W. Mengyan; Dr Gurkan Celebi
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-05-21T09:28:28Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-05-26T06:22:33Z