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Hafnium oxide is widely used for resistive switching devices, and recently it has been discovered that ferroelectricity can be established in (un-)doped hafnium oxide as well. Previous studies showed that both switching mechanisms are influenced by oxygen vacancies. For resistive switching, typically amorphous oxide layers with an asymmetric electrode configuration are used to create a gradient of oxygen vacancies. On the other hand, ferroelectric switching is performed by having symmetric electrodes and requires crystalline structures. The coexistence of both effects has recently been demonstrated. In this work, a detailed analysis of the reversible interplay of both switching mechanisms within a single capacitor cell is investigated. First, ferroelectric switching cycles were applied in order to drive the sample into the fatigued stage characterized by increased concentration of oxygen vacancies in the oxide layer. Afterwards, a forming step that is typical for the resistive switching devices was utilized to achieve a soft breakdown. In the next step, twofold alternation between the high and low resistance state is applied to demonstrate the resistive switching behavior of the device. Having the sample in the high resistance state with a ruptured filament, ferroelectric switching behavior is again shown within the same stack. Interestingly, the same endurance as before was observed without a hard breakdown of the device. Therefore, an effective sequence of ferroelectric—resistive—ferroelectric switching is realized. Additionally, the dependence of the forming, set, and reset voltage on the ferroelectric cycling stage (pristine, woken-up and fatigued) is analyzed giving insight into the physical device operation.

Die Entdeckung von neuen Materialien mit speziellen funktionalen Eigenschaften ist eins der wichtigsten Ziele in den Materialwissenschaften. Das Screening des strukturellen und chemischen Phasenraums nach potentiellen neuen Materialkandidaten wird häufig durch den Einsatz von Hochdurchsatzmethoden erleichtert. Schnelle und genaue Berechnungen sind eins der Hauptwerkzeuge solcher Screenings, deren erster Schritt oft Geometrierelaxationen sind. In Teil I dieser Arbeit wird eine neue Methode der eingeschränkten Geometrierelaxation vorgestellt, welche die perfekte Symmetrie des Kristalls erhält, Resourcen spart sowie Relaxationen von metastabilen Phasen und Systemen mit lokalen Symmetrien und Verzerrungen erlaubt. Neben der Verbesserung solcher Berechnungen um den Materialraum schneller zu durchleuchten ist auch eine bessere Nutzung vorhandener Daten ein wichtiger Pfeiler zur Beschleunigung der Entdeckung neuer Materialien. Obwohl schon viele verschiedene Datenbanken für computerbasierte Materialdaten existieren ist die Nutzbarkeit abhängig von der Darstellung dieser Daten. Hier untersuchen wir inwiefern semantische Technologien und Graphdarstellungen die Annotation von Daten verbessern können. Verschiedene Ontologien und Wissensgraphen werden entwickelt anhand derer die semantische Darstellung von Kristallstrukturen, Materialeigenschaften sowie experimentellen Ergebenissen im Gebiet der heterogenen Katalyse ermöglicht werden. Wir diskutieren, wie der Ansatz Ontologien und Wissensgraphen zu separieren, zusammenbricht wenn neues Wissen mit künstlicher Intelligenz involviert ist. Eine Zwischenebene wird als Lösung vorgeschlagen. Die Ontologien bilden das Hintergrundwissen, welches als Grundlage von zukünftigen autonomen Agenten verwendet werden kann. Zusammenfassend ist es noch ein langer Weg bis Materialdaten für Maschinen verständlich gemacht werden können, so das der direkte Nutzen semantischer Technologien nach aktuellem Stand in den Materialwissenschaften sehr limitiert ist. / The discovery of novel materials with specific functional properties is one of the highest goals in materials science. Screening the structural and chemical space for potential new material candidates is often facilitated by high-throughput methods. Fast and still precise computations are a main tool for such screenings and often start with a geometry relaxation to find the nearest low-energy configuration relative to the input structure. In part I of this work, a new constrained geometry relaxation is presented which maintains the perfect symmetry of a crystal, saves time and resources as well as enables relaxations of meta-stable phases and systems with local symmetries or distortions. Apart from improving such computations for a quicker screening of the materials space, better usage of existing data is another pillar that can accelerate novel materials discovery. While many different databases exists that make computational results accessible, their usability depends largely on how the data is presented. We here investigate how semantic technologies and graph representations can improve data annotation. A number of different ontologies and knowledge graphs are developed enabling the semantic representation of crystal structures, materials properties as well experimental results in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. We discuss the breakdown of the knowledge-graph approach when knowledge is created using artificial intelligence and propose an intermediate information layer. The underlying ontologies can provide background knowledge for possible autonomous intelligent agents in the future. We conclude that making materials science data understandable to machines is still a long way to go and the usefulness of semantic technologies in the domain of materials science is at the moment very limited.

Colorless crystals of the new hydroxometalates Ba[RE(OH)5] with the rare-earth elements RE=Tb, Dy, Ho were synthesized under ultra-alkaline conditions in a KOH hydroflux at 200 °C. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction revealed that the three compounds crystallize isostructural in the monoclinic space group P21/n (no. 14). In the crystal structure, the rare-earth cations are coordinated by the oxygen atoms of seven hydroxide anions, which define a distorted pentagonal bipyramid. These polyhedra share edges of their basal ring forming infinite chains that run parallel to the [010] direction. Hydrogen bonds connect the chains into layers parallel to the (101) plane. The Ba2+ cations are located between these layers and surrounded by nine oxygen atoms. Ba[Dy(OH)5] is paramagnetic and shows no luminescence under UV light. When heated in synthetic air or argon, water is released in well-defined steps. Ba[Dy(OH)5] decomposes via DyOOH to Dy2O3, which then reacts with the remaining Ba(OH)2 to form BaDy2O4. Thus, the hydroxometalates can be used as carbon-free precursors for oxides.

Hf₁₋ₓZrₓO₂ (x ∼ 0.5–0.7) has been the leading candidate of ferroelectric materials with a fluorite crystal structure showing highly promising compatibility with complementary metal oxide semiconductor devices. Despite the notable improvement in device performance and processing techniques, the origin of its ferroelectric crystalline phase (space group: Pca2₁) formation has not been clearly elucidated. Several recent experimental and theoretical studies evidently showed that the interface and grain boundary energies of the higher symmetry phases (orthorhombic and tetragonal) contribute to the stabilization of the metastable non-centrosymmetric orthorhombic phase or tetragonal phase. However, there was a clear quantitative discrepancy between the theoretical expectation and experiment results, suggesting that the thermodynamic model may not provide the full explanation. This work, therefore, focuses on the phase transition kinetics during the cooling step after the crystallization annealing. It was found that the large activation barrier for the transition from the tetragonal/orthorhombic to the monoclinic phase, which is the stable phase at room temperature, suppresses the phase transition, and thus, plays a critical role in the emergence of ferroelectricity.

The rare mineral cyanochroite, K2Cu(SO4)2·6H2O, features isolated Cu2+ ions in distorted octahedral coordination, linked via a hydrogen-bond network. We have grown single crystals of cyanochroite as large as ∼0.5 cm3 and investigated structural and magnetic aspects of this material. The positions of hydrogen atoms deviate significantly from those reported previously based on X-ray diffraction data, whereas the magnetic response is fully consistent with free Cu2+ spins. The structure is not changed by deuteration. Density functional theory calculations support our refined hydrogen positions.

In the title monohydrate compound, 1a, and the methanol solvate compound, 1b, the tri­ethyl­benzene derivative, C35H51N5O, has three functionalized side arms and three ethyl groups, the former being located on one side of the central benzene ring, while the latter are directed to the opposite side. Both the crystals are constructed of structurally similar dimers of 1:1 host–guest complexes held together by N—H...O and O—H...N hydrogen bonds, and in 1a additionally by O—H...O hydrogen bonds. The structure of 1b contains additional highly disordered solvent mol­ecules. Thus, the SQUEEZE routine [Spek (2015). Acta Cryst. C71, 9–18] in PLATON was used to generate a modified data set, in which the contribution of the disordered mol­ecules to the structure amplitudes is eliminated. These solvent mol­ecules are not considered in the reported chemical formula.

Di-tert-butyl N,N′-{[13,15,28,30,31,33-hexa­ethyl-3,10,18,25,32,34-hexa­aza­penta­cyclo­[25.3.1.15,8.112,16.120,23]tetra­triaconta-1(31),3,5,7,9,12(33),13,15,18,20,22,24,27,29-tetra­deca­ene-14,29-di­yl]bis­(methyl­ene)}dicarbamate methanol disolvate, C52H72N8O4·2CH3OH, was found to crystallize in the space group P21/c with one half of the macrocycle (host) and one mol­ecule of solvent (guest) in the asymmetric unit of the cell, i.e. the host mol­ecule is located on a crystallographic symmetry center. Within the 1:2 host–guest complex, the solvent mol­ecules are accommodated in the host cavity and held in their positions by O—H⋯N and N—H⋯O bonds, thus forming ring synthons of graph set R22(7). The connection of the 1:2 host-guest complexes is accomplished by C—H⋯O, C—H⋯N and C—H⋯π inter­actions, which create a three-dimensional supra­molecular network.

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Präparation strukturell geordneter Dünnschichtverbindungen der Seltenen Erden Ce und Dy mit den Übergangsmetallen Pd, Rh, und Ni sowie der Untersuchung ihrer kristallinen und elektronischen Struktur. Die Präparation der typischerweise 10 nm starken Dünnschichten erfolgte in-situ durch Aufdampfen der Seltenerdmetalle auf einkristalline Übergangsmetallsubstrate oder alternativ durch Kodeposition der Konstituenten auf einen W(110)-Einkristall, jeweils gefolgt durch kurzzeitiges Tempern bei 400 - 1000 °C zur Einstellung der kristallinen Ordnung. Letztere wurde mittels niederenergetischer Elektronenbeugung (LEED) analysiert und auf der Grundlage einer einfachen kinematischen Theorie ausgewertet. Die Untersuchungen der elektronischen Struktur erfolgten mittels winkelaufgelöster Photoemission (ARPES), teilweise unter Nutzung von Synchrotronstrahlung von BESSY. Schwerpunkt bildete dabei das Verhalten der Valenzbänder als Funktion von Struktur und Zusammensetzung der Dünnschichten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Oberflächenphänomenen. Gemessene Energiedispersionen wurden mit Ergebnissen eigens dafür durchgeführter LDA-LCAO-Rechnungen verglichen und beobachtete Energieverschiebungen der Bandschwerpunkte um z.T. mehr als 1 eV im Rahmen eines einfachen Modells auf unvollständige Abschirmung der Photoemissionsendzustände zurückgeführt. / The present thesis deals with preparation of structurally ordered thin-film compounds of the rare-earths Ce and Dy with the transition metals Pd, Rh, and Ni as well as with investigations of their crystalline and electronic structures. Typically 10nm-thick films were grown in-situ by deposition of the rare-earth metals onto single crystalline transition-metal substrates or alternatively by codeposition of both constituents onto a W(110) single crystal. In both cases deposition was followed by short-term annealing at temperatures of 400 - 1000 °C to achieve crystalline order. The latter was analyzed by means of low-energy electron-diffraction (LEED) and evaluated on the basis of a simple kinematic theory. The electronic structure was investigated by means of angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES), partially exploiting synchrotron radiation from BESSY. The studies concentrate mainly on the behavior of the valence bands as a function of structure and composition of the thin films, particularly under consideration of surface phenomena. Measured energy dispersions were compared with results of LDA-LCAO calculations performed in the framework of this thesis. Observed shifts of the energy bands by up to 1 eV are attributed in the light of a simple model to incomplete screening of the photoemission final states.

Es werden neue Erkenntnisse über Borphosphat und Borophosphate der Haupt- und Nebengruppenmetalle vorgestellt. Neben Hydrothermalsynthesen und Feststoffreationen, die üblicherweise zur Synthese von Borophosphaten angewendet werden, haben insbesondere die solvothermalen Experimente mit Alkoholen bzw. Alkohol-Wasser-Mischungen zu neuen Ergebnissen geführt. Es wurden neue Borophosphate und Borat-Phosphate in den Systemen MxOy–B2O3–P2O5(–H2O) (M = K+, Rb+, Mg2+, Sc3+, Pr3+, Sm3+, In3+) dargestellt, weitere Verbindungen enthalten neben Mg2+ weitere Kationen der Haupt- und Nebengruppenmetalle (Ca, Sr, Ba, Mn, Fe, Co, Zn). Darüberhinaus gelang die Darstellung bislang unbekannter Scandium- und Lanthanphosphate(III) sowie von sauren Alkalimetall-Scandiumphosphaten(V). Aus Synthesen in Gegenwart von Ethylendiamin und Diazabizyklooktan wurden ferner zwei neue templatierte Scandiumphosphate mit porösen Gerüststrukturen erhalten. Die Kristallstrukturen aller Verbindungem wurden rötgenographisch anhand von Einkristallaufnahmen oder Pulverdaten aufgeklärt. Die Charakterisierung der Präparate erfolgte mit Röntgenpulverdiffraktometrie, EDX- und Elementaranalysen sowie durch Schwingungsspektroskopie und thermische Stabilitätsuntersuchungen. Zur Klassifizierung von (Metallo)borophosphaten wird eine Struktursystematik vorgeschlagen, welche Borophosphate und Metalloborophosphate entsprechend ihrer anionischen Teilstrukturen hierarchisch klassifiziert und in Analogie zur Terminologie der Silikate (nach Liebau) beschreibt. In Anlehnung an bestehende Konzepte für Boratminerale geht das Klassifizierungsschema dabei von einfachen Oligomeren aus. In einer struktursystematischen Übersicht wurden alle bis dato bekannten (Metallo)Borophosphate hierarchisch klassifiziert und sind in einer Übersicht vorgestellt. Beobachtete Verknüpfungsregeln und der Einfluss der Zusammensetzung B:P auf die Dimensionalität und die Verknüpfungsmuster der anionischen Teilstruktur werden diskutiert.