Electrical and structural properties of VO2 in an electric field

Hwang, In-Hui; Jin, Zhenlan; Park, Chang-In; Sun, Cheng-Jun; Brewe, Dale L.; Han, Sang-Wook

doi:10.1016/j.cap.2021.05.010

Electrical and structural properties of VO₂ in an electric field

Journal Article · Thu Jun 10 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Current Applied Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cap.2021.05.010· OSTI ID:1831185

Hwang, In-Hui ^[1]; Jin, Zhenlan ^[2]; Park, Chang-In ^[2]; Sun, Cheng-Jun ^[3]; Brewe, Dale L. ^[3]; ^[2]

Jeonbuk National Univ., Jeonju (South Korea); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Jeonbuk National Univ., Jeonju (South Korea)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

We examined the electrical and local structural properties of a VO₂ film at different electric fields using electrical resistance and x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) measurements at the V K edge in the temperature range of 30–100 °C. The T_c value of the metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) during both heating and cooling decreases with electric field. When the electric field exceeds a certain value, the MIT becomes sharper due to Joule heating. Furthermore, the MIT, the structural phase transition (SPT), and the pre-edge peak transition of the VO₂ do not congruently occur at a uniform temperature. A metallic VO₂ is observed in only the rutile (or M2) symmetry. An electric field induces a substantial amount of conduction electrons in insulating VO₂. Simultaneously measured resistance and XAFS reveal that Joule heating caused by an external electric field significantly affects the MIT and SPT of VO₂.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1831185

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1840720
OSTI ID: 1862548

Journal Information:: Current Applied Physics, Journal Name: Current Applied Physics Vol. 30; ISSN 1567-1739

Publisher:: Korean Physical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (72)

The metal-insulator transitions of VO2: A band theoretical approach Eyert, V. Annalen der Physik, Vol. 11, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1002/1521-3889(200210)11:9<650::AID-ANDP650>3.0.CO;2-K	journal	October 2002
Temperature-Dependent Local Structural Properties of Redox Pt Nanoparticles on TiO2 and ZrO2 Supports Jeong, E. -S.; Park, C. -I.; Jin, Zhenlan Catalysis Letters, Vol. 145, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-015-1483-x	journal	January 2015
Invited paper: Thin-film Ovonic threshold switch: Its operation and application in modern integrated circuits Czubatyj, Wally; Hudgens, Stephen J. Electronic Materials Letters, Vol. 8, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13391-012-2040-z	journal	April 2012
The two components of the crystallographic transition in VO2 Goodenough, John B. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Vol. 3, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-4596(71)90091-0	journal	November 1971
Synthesis of VO2 (B) nanorods for Li battery application Subba Reddy, Ch. V.; Walker, Edwin H.; Wicker, S. A. Current Applied Physics, Vol. 9, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cap.2009.01.012	journal	November 2009
VO2 thin films based active and passive thermochromic devices for energy management applications Ba, Cheikhou O. F.; Bah, Souleymane T.; D'Auteuil, Marc Current Applied Physics, Vol. 14, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cap.2014.09.005	journal	November 2014
Synthesis and temperature-dependent local structural and electrical properties of VO2 films Jin, Zhenlan; Hwang, In-Hui; Park, Chang-In Current Applied Physics, Vol. 16, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cap.2015.11.012	journal	February 2016
Investigation on I-V characteristics of current induced metal insulator transition in VO 2 device Lee, Gi Yong; Kim, Howon; Mun, Bongjin Simon Current Applied Physics, Vol. 17, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cap.2017.08.006	journal	November 2017
Structural and electrical properties of VO 2 /ZnO nanostructures Jin, Zhenlan; Hwang, In-Hui; Park, Chang-In Current Applied Physics, Vol. 18, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cap.2017.12.009	journal	March 2018
Oxygen stoichiometry controlled sharp insulator-metal transition in highly oriented VO2/TiO2 thin films Im, Ji-Seok; Anoop, Gopinathan; Sohn, Min Kyun Current Applied Physics, Vol. 18, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cap.2018.03.022	journal	June 2018
Mesoporous vanadium oxide nanostructures: Hydrothermal synthesis, optical and electrochemical properties Mjejri, I.; Etteyeb, N.; Sediri, F. Ceramics International, Vol. 40, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2013.07.020	journal	January 2014
VO2 nanostructures based chemiresistors for low power energy consumption hydrogen sensing Simo, Aline; Mwakikunga, Bonex; Sone, Bertrand T. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 39, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.03.037	journal	May 2014
Thermochromic, threshold switching, and optical properties of Cr-doped VO2 thin films Zou, Zhaorui; Zhang, Zhenhua; Xu, Jing Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 806 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.07.264	journal	October 2019
VO2 (B) Nanosheets as a Cathode Material for Li-ion Battery Wang, Qiang; Pan, Jing; Li, Ming Journal of Materials Science & Technology, Vol. 31, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmst.2014.11.017	journal	June 2015
VO2-based radiative thermal transistor with a semi-transparent base Prod’homme, Hugo; Ordonez-Miranda, Jose; Ezzahri, Younès Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Vol. 210 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.02.005	journal	May 2018
Recent progresses on physics and applications of vanadium dioxide Liu, Kai; Lee, Sangwook; Yang, Shan Materials Today, Vol. 21, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2018.03.029	journal	October 2018
Ultrastable and High-Performance Zn/VO ₂ Battery Based on a Reversible Single-Phase Reaction Chen, Lineng; Ruan, Yushan; Zhang, Guobin Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 31, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03409	journal	January 2019
Crystallization of Transition-Metal Oxides in Aqueous Solution beyond Ostwald Ripening Jeong, Eun-Suk; Hwang, In-Hui; Han, Sang-Wook Langmuir, Vol. 36, Issue 35 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01903	journal	August 2020
Mott Switching and Structural Transition in the Metal Phase of VO ₂ Nanodomain Kim, Chang-Yong; Slusar, Tetiana; Cho, Jinchul ACS Applied Electronic Materials, Vol. 3, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.0c00983	journal	January 2021
Joule Heating-Induced Metal–Insulator Transition in Epitaxial VO ₂ /TiO ₂ Devices Li, Dasheng; Sharma, Abhishek A.; Gala, Darshil K. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 8, Issue 20 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b03501	journal	May 2016
Gate-Tunable Thermal Metal–Insulator Transition in VO ₂ Monolithically Integrated into a WSe ₂ Field-Effect Transistor Yamamoto, Mahito; Nouchi, Ryo; Kanki, Teruo ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 11, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b18745	journal	December 2018
One-Step Hydrothermal Synthesis of W-Doped VO ₂ (M) Nanorods with a Tunable Phase-Transition Temperature for Infrared Smart Windows Liang, Shan; Shi, Qiwu; Zhu, Hongfu ACS Omega, Vol. 1, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.6b00221	journal	December 2016
Gas Sensor Based on Metal−Insulator Transition in VO ₂ Nanowire Thermistor Strelcov, Evgheni; Lilach, Yigal; Kolmakov, Andrei Nano Letters, Vol. 9, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1021/nl900676n	journal	June 2009
The missing memristor found Strukov, Dmitri B.; Snider, Gregory S.; Stewart, Duncan R. Nature, Vol. 453, Issue 7191 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06932	journal	May 2008
Terahertz-field-induced insulator-to-metal transition in vanadium dioxide metamaterial Liu, Mengkun; Hwang, Harold Y.; Tao, Hu Nature, Vol. 487, Issue 7407 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11231	journal	July 2012
Collective bulk carrier delocalization driven by electrostatic surface charge accumulation Nakano, M.; Shibuya, K.; Okuyama, D. Nature, Vol. 487, Issue 7408 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11296	journal	July 2012
Positive-bias gate-controlled metal–insulator transition in ultrathin VO2 channels with TiO2 gate dielectrics Yajima, Takeaki; Nishimura, Tomonori; Toriumi, Akira Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10104	journal	December 2015
A steep-slope transistor based on abrupt electronic phase transition Shukla, Nikhil; Thathachary, Arun V.; Agrawal, Ashish Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8812	journal	August 2015
Strain engineering and one-dimensional organization of metal–insulator domains in single-crystal vanadium dioxide beams Cao, J.; Ertekin, E.; Srinivasan, V. Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 4, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.266	journal	September 2009
Recent progress in the phase-transition mechanism and modulation of vanadium dioxide materials Shao, Zewei; Cao, Xun; Luo, Hongjie NPG Asia Materials, Vol. 10, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41427-018-0061-2	journal	July 2018
Non-thermal resistive switching in Mott insulator nanowires Kalcheim, Yoav; Camjayi, Alberto; del Valle, Javier Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16752-1	journal	June 2020
Magnetic-field-induced insulator–metal transition in W-doped VO2 at 500 T Matsuda, Yasuhiro H.; Nakamura, Daisuke; Ikeda, Akihiko Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17416-w	journal	July 2020
The influence of structural disorder and phonon on metal-to-insulator transition of VO 2 Hwang, In-Hui; Jin, Zhenlan; Park, Chang-In Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14235-w	journal	November 2017
Decoupling the metal insulator transition and crystal field effects of VO2 Hwang, In-Hui; Park, Chang-In; Yeo, Sunmog Scientific Reports, Vol. 11, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82588-4	journal	February 2021
Unraveling Metal-insulator Transition Mechanism of VO2Triggered by Tungsten Doping Tan, Xiaogang; Yao, Tao; Long, Ran Scientific Reports, Vol. 2, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00466	journal	June 2012
VO2 thermochromic smart window for energy savings and generation Zhou, Jiadong; Gao, Yanfeng; Zhang, Zongtao Scientific Reports, Vol. 3, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep03029	journal	October 2013
Decoupling the Lattice Distortion and Charge Doping Effects on the Phase Transition Behavior of VO2 by Titanium (Ti4+) Doping Wu, Yanfei; Fan, Lele; Liu, Qinghua Scientific Reports, Vol. 5, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep09328	journal	May 2015
The Missing Memristor has Not been Found Vongehr, Sascha; Meng, Xiangkang Scientific Reports, Vol. 5, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep11657	journal	June 2015
VO ₂ nanorods for efficient performance in thermal fluids and sensors Dey, Kajal Kumar; Bhatnagar, Divyanshu; Srivastava, Avanish Kumar Nanoscale, Vol. 7, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1039/C4NR06032F	journal	January 2015
Scaling behavior of oxide-based electrothermal threshold switching devices Li, Dasheng; Goodwill, Jonathan M.; Bain, James A. Nanoscale, Vol. 9, Issue 37 https://doi.org/10.1039/C7NR03865H	journal	January 2017
A high performance electroformed single-crystallite VO ₂ threshold switch Zhou, Xin; Gu, Deen; Li, Yatao Nanoscale, Vol. 11, Issue 45 https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NR08364B	journal	January 2019
A durable VO ₂ (M)/Zn battery with ultrahigh rate capability enabled by pseudocapacitive proton insertion Zhang, Lishang; Miao, Ling; Zhang, Bao Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 8, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1039/C9TA11031C	journal	January 2020
Surface roughness and strain effects on ZnO nanorod growth Park, S. -H.; Seo, S. -Y.; Kim, S. -H. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 88, Issue 25 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2215631	journal	June 2006
Nanoscale imaging and control of resistance switching in VO2 at room temperature Kim, Jeehoon; Ko, Changhyun; Frenzel, Alex Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 96, Issue 21 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3435466	journal	May 2010
Non-congruence of thermally driven structural and electronic transitions in VO ₂ Nag, Joyeeta; Haglund, Richard F.; Andrew Payzant, E. Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 112, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4764040	journal	November 2012
Electrical and optical characterization of the metal-insulator transition temperature in Cr-doped VO ₂ thin films Brown, B. L.; Lee, Mark; Clem, P. G. Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 113, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4803551	journal	May 2013
Anomalous structural disorder and distortion in metal-to-insulator-transition Ti ₂ O ₃ Hwang, In-Hui; Jiang, Bingzhi; Jin, Zhenlan Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 119, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4939290	journal	January 2016
The tetragonal-like to rutile structural phase transition in epitaxial VO ₂ /TiO ₂ (001) thick films Qiu, Hongbo; Yang, Memgmeng; Dong, Yongqi New Journal of Physics, Vol. 17, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/11/113016	journal	November 2015
Mechanism and observation of Mott transition in VO ₂ -based two- and three-terminal devices Kim, Hyun-Tak; Chae, Byung-Gyu; Youn, Doo-Hyeb New Journal of Physics, Vol. 6 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/6/1/052	journal	January 2004
Electronic Properties of V O 2 near the Semiconductor-Metal Transition Berglund, C. N.; Guggenheim, H. J. Physical Review, Vol. 185, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.185.1022	journal	September 1969
Structural Aspects of the Metal-Insulator Transitions in Cr-Doped V O 2 Marezio, M.; McWhan, D. B.; Remeika, J. P. Physical Review B, Vol. 5, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.5.2541	journal	April 1972
Optical properties of V 1 − x Cr x O 2 compounds under high pressure Marini, C.; Arcangeletti, E.; Di Castro, D. Physical Review B, Vol. 77, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.77.235111	journal	June 2008
Insulator to correlated metal transition in V 1 − x Mo x O 2 Holman, K. L.; McQueen, T. M.; Williams, A. J. Physical Review B, Vol. 79, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.245114	journal	June 2009
Nonpercolative metal-insulator transition in VO 2 single crystals Mun, Bongjin Simon; Chen, Kai; Yoon, Joonseok Physical Review B, Vol. 84, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.113109	journal	September 2011
Electric-field-driven phase transition in vanadium dioxide Wu, B.; Zimmers, A.; Aubin, H. Physical Review B, Vol. 84, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.241410	journal	December 2011
Phase transition in bulk single crystals and thin films of V O 2 by nanoscale infrared spectroscopy and imaging Liu, Mengkun; Sternbach, Aaron J.; Wagner, Martin Physical Review B, Vol. 91, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.245155	journal	June 2015
Unified band-theoretic description of structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of vanadium dioxide phases Xu, Sheng; Shen, Xiao; Hallman, Kent A. Physical Review B, Vol. 95, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.125105	journal	March 2017
Understanding the Nature of the Kinetic Process in a VO 2 Metal-Insulator Transition Yao, Tao; Zhang, Xiaodong; Sun, Zhihu Physical Review Letters, Vol. 105, Issue 22 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.226405	journal	November 2010
New Technique for Investigating Noncrystalline Structures: Fourier Analysis of the Extended X-Ray—Absorption Fine Structure Sayers, Dale E.; Stern, Edward A.; Lytle, Farrel W. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 27, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.27.1204	journal	November 1971
Oxides Which Show a Metal-to-Insulator Transition at the Neel Temperature Morin, F. J. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 3, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.3.34	journal	July 1959
VO 2 : Peierls or Mott-Hubbard? A view from band theory Wentzcovitch, Renata M.; Schulz, Werner W.; Allen, Philip B. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 72, Issue 21 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.3389	journal	May 1994
Monoclinic and Correlated Metal Phase in VO 2 as Evidence of the Mott Transition: Coherent Phonon Analysis Kim, Hyun-Tak; Lee, Yong Wook; Kim, Bong-Jun Physical Review Letters, Vol. 97, Issue 26 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.266401	journal	December 2006
Theoretical approaches to x-ray absorption fine structure Rehr, J. J.; Albers, R. C. Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 72, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.72.621	journal	July 2000
Terahertz Transmittance of Cobalt-Doped VO ₂ Thin Film: Investigated by Terahertz Spectroscopy and Effective Medium Theory Lu, Chang; Liang, Weizheng; Gao, Min IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, Vol. 9, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TTHZ.2019.2894516	journal	March 2019
Mott Transition in VO2 Revealed by Infrared Spectroscopy and Nano-Imaging Qazilbash, M. M.; Brehm, M.; Chae, B. -G. Science, Vol. 318, Issue 5857 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1150124	journal	December 2007
Suppression of Metal-Insulator Transition in VO2 by Electric Field-Induced Oxygen Vacancy Formation Jeong, J.; Aetukuri, N.; Graf, T. Science, Vol. 339, Issue 6126 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1230512	journal	March 2013
Oxide Electronics Utilizing Ultrafast Metal-Insulator Transitions Yang, Zheng; Ko, Changhyun; Ramanathan, Shriram Annual Review of Materials Research, Vol. 41, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-matsci-062910-100347	journal	August 2011
On the VO ₂ metasurface-based temperature sensor Baqir, M. A.; Choudhury, P. K. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 36, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.36.00F123	journal	January 2019
Size effects on metal-insulator phase transition in individual vanadium dioxide nanowires Hongwei, Liu; Junpeng, Lu; Minrui, Zheng Optics Express, Vol. 22, Issue 25 https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.030748	journal	January 2014
X-ray absorption fine structure and nanostructures Han, Sang Wook International Journal of Nanotechnology, Vol. 3, Issue 2/3 https://doi.org/10.1504/IJNT.2006.009590	journal	January 2006
Optically Monitored Electric-Field-Induced Phase Transition in Vanadium Dioxide Crystal Film Wang, Peng-Fei; Hu, Qianqian; Zheng, Tan Crystals, Vol. 10, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst10090764	journal	August 2020
Effect of Ti:ZnO Layer on the Phase Transition and the Optical Properties of VO2 Film Kumar, Manish; Rani, Sunita; Lee, Hyun Hwi Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 75, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.75.519	journal	October 2019

Similar Records

Decoupling the metal insulator transition and crystal field effects of VO₂

Journal Article · Wed Feb 03 23:00:00 EST 2021 · Scientific Reports · OSTI ID:1797799

In situ x-ray diffraction studies on epitaxial VO{sub 2} films grown on c-Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} during thermally induced insulator-metal transition

Journal Article · Mon Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Journal of Applied Physics · OSTI ID:21476164

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Critical
Electric field
Metal insulator transition
Structural phase transition
Temperature
VO2
XAFS

Electrical and structural properties of VO2 in an electric field

Citation Formats

References (72)

Similar Records

Related Subjects

Electrical and structural properties of VO₂ in an electric field