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Title: Influence of amorphous structure on polymorphism in vanadia

Abstract

Normally we think of the glassy state as a single phase and therefore crystallization from chemically identical amorphous precursors should be identical. Here we show that the local structure of an amorphous precursor is distinct depending on the initial deposition conditions, resulting in significant differences in the final state material. Using grazing incidence total x-ray scattering, we have determined the local structure in amorphous thin films of vanadium oxide grown under different conditions using pulsed laser deposition (PLD). Here we show that the subsequent crystallization of films deposited using different initial PLD conditions result in the formation of different polymorphs of VO2. Ultimately this suggests the possibility of controlling the formation of metastable polymorphs by tuning the initial amorphous structure to different formation pathways.

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Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Next Generation of Materials by Design: Incorporating Metastability (CNGMD); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1262101
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1290793; OSTI ID: 1312735; OSTI ID: 1421196
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5K00-66923
Journal ID: ISSN 2166-532X
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308; AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
APL Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: APL Materials Journal Volume: 4 Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2166-532X
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; polymorphism; crystal structure; amorphous state; crystallization; pulsed laser deposition

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Stone, Kevin H., Schelhas, Laura T., Garten, Lauren M., Shyam, Badri, Mehta, Apurva, Ndione, Paul F., Ginley, David S., and Toney, Michael F. Influence of amorphous structure on polymorphism in vanadia. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4958674.
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Stone, Kevin H., Schelhas, Laura T., Garten, Lauren M., Shyam, Badri, Mehta, Apurva, Ndione, Paul F., Ginley, David S., & Toney, Michael F. Influence of amorphous structure on polymorphism in vanadia. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4958674
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Stone, Kevin H., Schelhas, Laura T., Garten, Lauren M., Shyam, Badri, Mehta, Apurva, Ndione, Paul F., Ginley, David S., and Toney, Michael F. Fri . "Influence of amorphous structure on polymorphism in vanadia". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4958674.
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@article{osti_1262101,
title = {Influence of amorphous structure on polymorphism in vanadia},
author = {Stone, Kevin H. and Schelhas, Laura T. and Garten, Lauren M. and Shyam, Badri and Mehta, Apurva and Ndione, Paul F. and Ginley, David S. and Toney, Michael F.},
abstractNote = {Normally we think of the glassy state as a single phase and therefore crystallization from chemically identical amorphous precursors should be identical. Here we show that the local structure of an amorphous precursor is distinct depending on the initial deposition conditions, resulting in significant differences in the final state material. Using grazing incidence total x-ray scattering, we have determined the local structure in amorphous thin films of vanadium oxide grown under different conditions using pulsed laser deposition (PLD). Here we show that the subsequent crystallization of films deposited using different initial PLD conditions result in the formation of different polymorphs of VO2. Ultimately this suggests the possibility of controlling the formation of metastable polymorphs by tuning the initial amorphous structure to different formation pathways.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4958674},
journal = {APL Materials},
number = 7,
volume = 4,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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