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Due to the photo-instability and hysteresis of TiO$_2$ electron transport layer (ETL) in perovskite solar cells (PSCs), novel electron transport materials are highly demanded. Here, we show ideal band alignment between La-doped BaSnO$_3$…
BaSnO$_3$ (BSO) is a promising transparent conducting oxide (TCO) with reported room-temperature (RT) Hall mobility exceeding 320 cm$^{2}$V$^{-1}$s$^{-1}$. Among perovskite oxides, it has the highest RT mobility, about 30 times higher than…
Transparent electronic materials are increasingly in demand for a variety of optoelectronic applications. BaSnO3 is a semiconducting oxide with a large band gap of more than 3.1 eV. Recently, we discovered that La doped BaSnO3 exhibits…
Doping inhomogeneities in solids are not uncommon, but their microscopic observation and understanding are limited due to the lack of bulk-sensitive experimental techniques with high-enough spatial and spectral resolution. Here, we…
Transparent oxide semiconductors (TOSs) showing both high visible transparency and high electron mobility have attracted great attention towards the realization of advanced optoelectronic devices. La-doped BaSnO3 (LBSO) is one of the most…
BaSnO_{3}, a high mobility perovskite oxide, is an attractive material for oxide-based electronic devices. However, in addition to low-field mobility, high-field transport properties such as the saturation velocity of carriers play a major…
Heteroepitaxial growth of BaSnO$_3$ (BSO) and Ba$_{1-x}$La$_x$SnO$_3$ (x = 7 %) (LBSO) thin films on different perovskite single crystal (SrTiO$_3$ (001) and SmScO$_3$ (110)) substrates has been achieved by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD)…
We discovered that La-doped BaSnO3 with the perovskite structure has an unprecedentedly high mobility at room temperature while retaining its optical transparency. In single crystals, the mobility reached 320 cm^2(Vs)^-1 at a doping level…
Perovskite alkaline earth stannates, such as $BaSnO_3$ and $SrSnO_3$, showing light transparency and high electrical conductivity (when doped), have become promising candidates for novel optoelectrical devices. Such devices are mostly based…
Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) and transparent oxide semiconductors (TOSs) have become necessary materials for a variety of applications in the information and energy technologies, ranging from transparent electrodes to active…
We report calculations of the electronic structure and optical properties of doped $n$-type perovskite BaSnO3 and layered perovskites. While doped BaSnO$_3$ retains its transparency for energies below the valence to conduction band onset,…
Through a combination of thin film growth, hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES), scanning transmission electron microscopy/electron energy loss spectroscopy (STEM/EELS), magneto-transport measurements, and transport modeling, we…
A novel 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) system with high-mobility was discovered at the interface of two perovskite oxides, a polar orthorhombic perovskite LaScO3 (LSO) and a nonpolar cubic perovskite BaSnO3 (BSO). Upon depositing the LSO…
The high room temperature mobility and the electron effective mass in BaSnO$_3$ are investigated in depth by evaluation of the free carrier absorption observed in infrared spectra for epitaxial films with free electron concentrations from…
We discovered that perovskite (Ba,La)SnO3 can have excellent carrier mobility even though its band gap is large. The Hall mobility of Ba0.98La0.02SnO3 crystals with the n-type carrier concentration of \sim 8-10\times10 19 cm-3 is found to…
We report herein that the carrier mobility of the 2%-La-doped BaSnO3 (LBSO) films on (001) SrTiO3 and (001) MgO substrates strongly depends on the thickness whereas it is unrelated to the lattice mismatch (+5.4% for SrTiO3, -2.3% for MgO).…
The perovskite BaSnO$_3$ provides a promising platform for the realization of an earth abundant $n$-type transparent conductor. Its optical properties are dominated by a dispersive conduction band of Sn $5s$ states, and by a flatter valence…
Thin films of perovskite oxides offer the possibility of combining emerging concepts of strongly correlated electron phenomena and spin current in magnetic devices. However, spin transport and magnetization dynamics in these complex oxide…
Ferromagnetic/metallic manganese perovskites, such as La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO)are promising materials for the design and implementation of novel spintronic devices working at room temperature. However, their implementation in practical…
Polar metals are rare because free carriers in metals screen electrostatic potential and eliminate internal dipoles. Degenerate doped ferroelectrics may create an approximate polar metallic phase. We use first-principles calculations to…