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DOE OSTI2020

Materials Data on CaMoO4 by Materials Project

CaMoO4 is Zircon-like structured and crystallizes in the tetragonal I4_1/a space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Ca2+ is bonded in a 8-coordinate geometry to eight equivalent O2- atoms. There are four shorter (2.48 Å) and four longer (2.51 Å) Ca–O bond lengths. Mo6+ is bonded in a tetrahedral geometry to four equivalent O2- atoms. All Mo–O bond lengths are 1.81 Å. O2- is bonded in a 3-coordinate geometry to two equivalent Ca2+ and one Mo6+ atom.

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DOE OSTI2025

Microstructural and preliminary optical and microwave characterization of erbium-doped CaMoO 4 thin films

This work explores erbium-doped calcium molybdate (Er:CaMoO4) thin films grown on silicon and yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) substrates, as a potential solid state system for C-band (utilizing the ∼1.5 μm Er 3+ 4f–4f transition) quantum emitters for quantum network applications. Through molecular beam epitaxial growth experiments and electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and reflection electron diffraction studies, we identify an incorporation limited deposition regime that enables a 1:1 Ca:Mo ratio in the growing film leading to single phase CaMoO 4 formation that can be in situ doped with Er (typically 2–100 ppm). We further show that growth on silicon substrates is single phase but polycrystalline in morphology, while growth on YSZ substrates leads to high-quality epitaxial single crystalline CaMoO 4 films. We perform preliminary optical and microwave characterization on the suspected Y 1 –Z 1 transition of 2 ppm, 200 nm epitaxial Er:CaMoO 4 annealed thin films and extract an optical inhomogeneous linewidth of 9.1(1) GHz, an optical excited state lifetime of 6.7(2) ms, a spectral diffusion-limited homogeneous linewidth of 6.7(4) MHz, and an EPR linewidth of 1.10(2) GHz.

Masiulionis, Ignas [Univ. of Chicago, IL (United S↗