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Doping via electrostatic gating is a powerful and widely used technique to tune the electron densities in layered materials. The microscopic details of how these setups affect the layered material are, however, subtle and call for careful…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 Peiliang Zhao , Jin Yu , H. Zhong , Malt. Rosner , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Shengjun Yuan

The correlated electron system SmNiO3 exhibits a metal-insulator phase transition at 130 {\deg}C. Using an ionic liquid as an electric double layer (EDL) gate on three-terminal ultrathin SmNiO3 devices, we investigate gate control of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-10 Sieu D. Ha , Ulrich Vetter , Jian Shi , Shriram Ramanathan

We demonstrate an improvement in the performance of organic photovoltaic (OPV) systems based on small molecules by ionic gating via controlled reversible n-doping of multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) coated on fullerenes ETL: C60 and C70.…

The gate-voltage-induced suppression of critical currents in metallic superconductors observed recently [De Simoni et al., Nat. Nanotechnol. 13, 802 (2018)] has raised crucial questions regarding the nature and mechanism of the electric…

Electrostatic gating confines and controls the transport of electrons in integrated circuits. Magnons, the quanta of spin waves of the magnetic order, are promising alternative information carriers, but difficult to gate. Here we report…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Tao Yu , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

In the last 60 years conventional solid and electrolyte gating allowed sizable modulations of the surface carrier concentration in metallic superconductors resulting in tuning their conductivity and changing their critical temperature.…

Ionic liquid gating can markedly modulate the materials' carrier density so as to induce metallization, superconductivity, and quantum phase transitions. One of the main issues is whether the mechanism of ionic liquid gating is an…

By using an electrochemical gating technique with a new combination of polymer and electrolyte, we were able to inject surface charge densities n_2D as high as 3.5 \times 10^15 e/cm^2 in gold films and to observe large relative variations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-17 D. Daghero , F. Paolucci , A. Sola , M. Tortello , G. A. Ummarino , R. S. Gonnelli , Jijeesh R. Nair , C. Gerbaldi

We report protonation in several compounds by an ionic-liquid-gating method, with optimized gating conditions. This leads to single superconducting phases for several compounds. Non-volatility of protons allow post-gating magnetization and…

Tungsten oxide and its associated bronzes (compounds of tungsten oxide and an alkali metal) are well known for their interesting optical and electrical characteristics. We have modified the transport properties of thin WO$_3$ films by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-19 X. Leng , J. Pereiro , J. Strle , G. Dubuis , A. T. Bollinger , A. Gozar , J. Wu , N. Litombe , C. Panagopoulos , D. Pavuna , I. Božović

We investigate transport through ionic liquid gated field effect transistors (FETs) based on exfoliated crystals of semiconducting WS$_2$. Upon electron accumulation, at surface densities close to -or just larger than- 10$^{14}$ cm$^{-2}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Sanghyun Jo , Davide Costanzo , Helmuth Berger , Alberto F. Morpurgo

Manipulating quantum state via electrostatic gating has been intriguing for many model systems in nanoelectronics. When it comes to the question of controlling the electron spins, more specifically, the magnetism of a system, tuning with…

Ionic liquid (IL) gating has emerged as a powerful tool to control the structural, electronic, optical, and magnetic properties of materials by driving ion motion at solid interfaces. In magneto-ionic systems, electric fields are used to…

Electrostatic gating provides a way to obtain key functionalities in modern electronic devices and to qualitatively alter materials properties. While electrostatic description of such gating gives guidance for related doping effects,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-08 Predrag Lazic , Kirill D. Belashchenko , Igor Zutic

We report the operation of a field-effect transistor based on a single InAs nanowire gated by an ionic liquid. Liquid gating yields very efficient carrier modulation with a transconductance value thirty time larger than standard back gating…

Ionic liquids provide versatile pathways for controlling the structures and properties of quantum materials. Previous studies have reported electrostatic gating of nanometre-thick flakes leading to emergent superconductivity, insertion or…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-28 Fei Wang , Yang Zhang , Zhijie Wang , Haoxiong Zhang , Xi Wu , Changhua Bao , Jia Li , Pu Yu , Shuyun Zhou

Electrostatic modification of functional materials by electrolytic gating has demonstrated a remarkably wide range of density modulation, a condition crucial for developing novel electronic phases in systems ranging from complex oxides to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Yuan Ren , Hongtao Yuan , Xiaoyu Wu , Zhuoyu Chen , Yoshihiro Iwasa , Yi Cui , Harold Y. Hwang , Keji Lai

Electric gating can strongly modulate a wide variety of physical properties in semiconductors and insulators, such as significant changes of conductivity in silicon, appearance of superconductivity in SrTiO3, the paramagnet-ferromagnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Sergey Dushenko , Masaya Hokazono , Kohji Nakamura , Yuichiro Ando , Teruya Shinjo , Masashi Shiraishi

The electric-field control of magnetism is a highly promising and potentially effective approach for achieving energy-efficient applications. In recent times, there has been significant interest in the magneto-ionic effect in synthetic…

Gate-tunable Josephson junctions (JJs) are the backbone of superconducting classical and quantum computation. Typically, these systems exploit low charge concentration materials, and present technological diffculties limiting their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Federico Paolucci , Francesco Vischi , Giorgio De Simoni , Claudio Guarcello , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto