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Wu, Z. (author), De Wit, Lidwin (author), Beek, Melanie (author), Colombi, G. (author), Chaykina, D. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Schut, H. (author), Butterling, Maik (author), Brück, E.H. (author), Dam, B. (author), Eijt, S.W.H. (author)
Cycling stability of the photochromic effect in rare-earth oxyhydride thin films is of great importance for long-term applications such as smart windows. However, an increasingly slower bleaching rate upon photochromic cycling was found in yttrium oxyhydride thin films; the origin of this memory effect is yet unclear. In this work, the...
journal article 2024
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Colombi, G. (author), Boshuizen, B. (author), Chaykina, D. (author), Hsu, Y. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Savenije, T.J. (author), Dam, B. (author)
At ambient conditions, rare-earth oxyhydride thin films show reversible photochromism and photoconductivity, while their mechanism and relation are still unclear. In this work, this question is explored with in situ time-resolved measurements of both optical and transport properties of Gd-based oxyhydride thin films. It is found that p-type...
journal article 2023
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Chaykina, D. (author), Colombi, G. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Dam, B. (author)
Photochromism has been reported for several rare-earth (RE) metal oxyhydride thin films and is characterized by a reversible darkening of the sample when exposed to light with energy greater than its optical bandgap. Here, we extend the range of known photochromic RE-oxyhydrides to include samarium oxyhydrides. These SmH3−2xOx thin films are...
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Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), van Beugen, N. (author), Kinane, Christy (author), Hall, Stephen (author), Dam, B. (author)
Accurate, cost-efficient, and safe hydrogen sensors will play a key role in the future hydrogen economy. Optical hydrogen sensors based on metal hydrides are attractive owing to their small size and costs and the fact that they are intrinsically safe. These sensors rely on suitable sensing materials, of which the optical properties change...
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Chaykina, D. (author), Usman, I.N. (author), Colombi, G. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Tyburska-Pueschel, Beata (author), Wu, Z. (author), Eijt, S.W.H. (author), Bannenberg, L.J. (author), De Wijs, Gilles A. (author), Dam, B. (author)
The energy axes of the RBS and ERD data (contained in Figures 2a,b,d,e, and S4) were originally underestimated, and the corrected figures appear below and in the Supporting Information. The change is in the conversion from raw data to the energy scale, which was initially converted incorrectly. The rescaled x-axis does not change the data...
journal article 2022
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Chaykina, D. (author), Usman, I.N. (author), Colombi, G. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Tyburska-Pueschel, Beata (author), Wu, Z. (author), Eijt, S.W.H. (author), Bannenberg, L.J. (author), De Wijs, Gilles A. (author), Dam, B. (author)
To develop an understanding of the photochromic effect in rare-earth metal oxyhydride thin films (REH3-2xOx, here RE = Y), we explore the aliovalent doping of the RE cation. We prepared Ca-doped yttrium oxyhydride thin films ((CazY1-z)HxOy) by reactive magnetron cosputtering with Ca doping concentrations between 0 and 36 at. %. All of the...
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Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Dam, B. (author)
Hydrogen detection in a reliable, fast, and cost-effective manner is a prerequisite for the large-scale implementation of hydrogen in a green economy. Thin film Ta<sub>1−y</sub>Pd<sub>y</sub> is presented as an effective optical sensing material with extremely wide sensing ranges covering at least 7 orders of magnitude in hydrogen pressure....
journal article 2021
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Chaykina, D. (author), Nafezarefi, F. (author), Colombi, G. (author), Cornelius, S. (author), Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Dam, B. (author)
Thin films of rare earth metal oxyhydrides show a photochromic effect, the precise mechanism of which is yet unknown. Here, we made thin films of NdH3-2xOx and show that we can change the band gap, crystal structure, and photochromic contrast by tuning the composition (O2-:H-) via the sputtering deposition pressure. To protect these films...
journal article 2021
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Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Kim, H.J. (author), Sakaki, Kouji (author), Hayashi, Shigenobu (author), Ikeda, Kazutaka (author), Otomo, Toshiya (author), Dam, B. (author), Asano, Kohta (author)
Metal hydrides may play a paramount role in a future hydrogen economy. While most applications are based on nanostructured and confined materials, studies considering the structural response of these materials to hydrogen concentrate on bulk material. Here, using in situ in- and out-of-plane X-ray diffraction and reflectometry, we study the fcc ...
journal article 2021
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Chaykina, D. (author), De Krom, T. (author), Colombi, G. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Suter, A. (author), Prokscha, T. (author), Dam, B. (author), Eijt, S.W.H. (author)
Thin films of rare-earth metal oxyhydrides, such as yttrium oxyhydrides (YH3-2xOx), show a photochromic effect where the transparency of the films decreases reversibly upon exposure to UV light. However, the exact mechanism behind this effect is unknown. In this paper, we describe the behavior of YH3-2xOx thin films, with different O2-:H-...
journal article 2021
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Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Boelsma, C. (author), Asano, Kohta (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Dam, B. (author)
Hydrogen is playing a key role in the transition to a sustainable economy and in a variety of industrial processes. For its safe handling, the detection of hydrogen in a fast, reliable and accurate manner is crucial. Thin film metal hydride based optical hydrogen sensors provide an attractive option to sense hydrogen in a variety of conditions...
journal article 2020
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Griessen, Ronald (author), Boelsma, Christiaan (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Broedersz, Chase P. (author), Gremaud, Robin (author), Dam, B. (author)
Enthalpy-entropy compensation (EEC) is very often encountered in chemistry, biology and physics. Its origin is widely discussed since it would allow, for example, a very accurate tuning of the thermodynamic properties as a function of the reactants. However, EEC is often discarded as a statistical artefact, especially when only a limited...
journal article 2020
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Cornelius, S. (author), Colombi, G. (author), Nafezarefi, F. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Heller, R. (author), Munnik, Frans (author), Dam, B. (author)
Thin films of rare-earth (RE)-oxygen-hydrogen compounds prepared by reactive magnetron sputtering show a unique color-neutral photochromic effect at ambient conditions. While their optical properties have been studied extensively, the understanding of the relationship between photochromism, chemical composition, and structure is limited....
journal article 2019
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Nafezarefi, F. (author), Cornelius, S. (author), Nijskens, J. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Dam, B. (author)
Thin films of yttrium oxy-hydride have interesting, reversible photochromic properties, the origin of which is poorly understood. To investigate the role of point defect mobility, we probed the effect of lattice contraction as induced by the addition of zirconium. Interestingly, we find no loss of photochromic contrast for Y <sub>1-z</sub>...
journal article 2019
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Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Nugroho, Ferry Anggoro Ardy (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Norder, B. (author), Trinh, Thuy-Trang (author), Steinke, N.J. (author), van Well, A.A. (author), Langhammer, Christoph (author), Dam, B. (author)
Nanostructured metal hydrides are able to efficiently detect hydrogen in optical sensors. In the literature, two nanostructured systems based on metal hydrides have been proposed for this purpose each with its own detection principle: continuous sub-100 nm thin films read out via optical reflectance/transmittance changes and nanoparticle arrays...
journal article 2019
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Plokker, M.P. (author), Eijt, S.W.H. (author), Naziris, F. (author), Schut, H. (author), Nafezarefi, F. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Cornelius, S. (author), Dam, B. (author)
In order to investigate the mechanism of the photochromic effect in yttrium oxy-hydride (YO<sub>x</sub>H<sub>y</sub>) thin films, Doppler broadening positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS) was applied to probe the electronic structure and the presence of vacancies in YO<sub>x</sub>H<sub>y</sub> and related materials as a function of...
journal article 2018
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Baldi, Andrea (author), Mooij, L.P.A. (author), Palmisano, V (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Krishnan, Gopi (author), Kooi, Bart J. (author), Dam, B. (author), Griessen, Ronald (author)
Magnesium thin films covered with a layer of Pd absorb hydrogen at much higher pressures than bulk Mg. Such an effect was originally explained as a consequence of elastic clamping on Mg by the capping Pd layer. An alternative interpretation later suggested that the pressure increase could originate from simple alloying between Mg and Pd. Here...
journal article 2018
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Nafezarefi, F. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Dam, B. (author), Cornelius, S. (author)
Recently, thin films of yttrium oxy-hydride (YO<sub>x</sub>H<sub>y</sub>) were reported to show an unusual color-neutral photochromic effect promising for application in smart windows. Our present work demonstrates that also oxy-hydrides based on Gd, Dy, and Er have photochromic properties and crystal structures similar to YO<sub>x</sub>H<sub...
journal article 2017
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Asano, K. (author), Westerwaal, R.J. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Dam, B. (author)
Nanometer-sized Mg hydride clusters may form in a self-organized way by the hydrogenation of a nonequilibrium Mg-Ti alloy. Here the Mg hydride is destabilized by the interface energy between the two metal hydrides. To obtain an even more destabilized Mg hydride, we increased the interface energy by the addition of Cr, which is immiscible with...
journal article 2017
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Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Schreuders, H. (author), van Eijck, L. (author), Heringa, J.R. (author), Steinke, N.J. (author), Dalgliesh, R.M. (author), Dam, B. (author), Mulder, F.M. (author), van Well, A.A. (author)
Nanostructuring is widely applied in both battery and hydrogen materials to improve the performance of these materials as energy carriers. Nanostructuring changes the diffusion length as well as the thermodynamics of materials. We studied the impact of nanostructuring on the hydrogenation in a model system consisting of a thin film of magnesium...
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