{"id":1620,"date":"2025-05-01T07:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2025-06-18T05:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:56:58","slug":"appl-phys-lett-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/en\/2025\/05\/01\/1620\/","title":{"rendered":"Published: Distinct roles of Mg and Li in affecting EO properties of ZnO thin films"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our paper entitled \u201c<em>Distinct Roles of Mg and Li in Affecting the Electro-optic Properties of Wurtzite ZnO Thin Films<\/em>\u201d has been published in <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1063\/5.0258066\">Appl. Phys. Lett.<\/a> Increasing the Mg content in ZnO significantly enhances internal parameter <em>u<\/em> and reduces the anion\u2013cation bond lengths along the <em>c<\/em>-axis direction. This facilitates Zn displacement along the <em>c<\/em>-axis direction and increases electric susceptibility, enhancing the ionic contribution to <em>r<\/em><sub>c<\/sub>. As opposite to Mg, Li incorporation produces slight lattice expansion and increases anion\u2013cation bond lengths along the <em>c<\/em>-axis orientation. Larger <em>r<\/em><sub>c<\/sub> could be reached by optimizing the Mg and Li content as well as the thickness. These findings suggest the great potential of widegap ZnMgO:Li thin films for applications to EO modulation in ultraviolet band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025APL_2-300x255.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025APL_2-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025APL_2-1024x870.png 1024w, https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025APL_2-768x653.png 768w, https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025APL_2.png 1387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our paper entitled \u201cDistinct Roles of Mg and Li in Affecting the Electro-optic Properties of Wurtzite ZnO Thin Films\u201d has been published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Increasing the Mg content in ZnO significantly enhances internal parameter u and reduces the anion\u2013cation bond lengths along the c-axis direction. This facilitates Zn displacement along the c-axis direction &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/en\/2025\/05\/01\/1620\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Published: Distinct roles of Mg and Li in affecting EO properties of ZnO thin films&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/?p=1617","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enemat.energy.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}