Correlation-driven insulator-metal transition in near-ideal vanadium dioxide films
Abstract
We use polarization- and temperature-dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy, in combination with photoelectron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, and electronic transport measurements, to study the driving force behind the insulator-metal transition in VO2. We show that both the collapse of the insulating gap and the concomitant change in crystal symmetry in homogeneously strained single-crystalline VO2 films are preceded by the purely electronic softening of Coulomb correlations within V-V singlet dimers. This process starts 7 K (±0.3 K) below the transition temperature, as conventionally defined by electronic transport and x-ray diffraction measurements, and sets the energy scale for driving the near-room-temperature insulator-metal transition in this technologically promising material.
- Authors:
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- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
- IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA (United States)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1261081
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1242439; OSTI ID: 1379238
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-16591
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; arXiv:1503.07892
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 116; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; MATSCI
Citation Formats
Gray, A. X., Jeong, J., Aetukuri, N. P., Granitzka, P., Chen, Z., Kukreja, R., Higley, D., Chase, T., Reid, A. H., Ohldag, H., Marcus, M. A., Scholl, A., Young, A. T., Doran, A., Jenkins, C. A., Shafer, P., Arenholz, E., Samant, M. G., Parkin, S. S. P., and Durr, H. A. Correlation-driven insulator-metal transition in near-ideal vanadium dioxide films. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.116403.
Gray, A. X., Jeong, J., Aetukuri, N. P., Granitzka, P., Chen, Z., Kukreja, R., Higley, D., Chase, T., Reid, A. H., Ohldag, H., Marcus, M. A., Scholl, A., Young, A. T., Doran, A., Jenkins, C. A., Shafer, P., Arenholz, E., Samant, M. G., Parkin, S. S. P., & Durr, H. A. Correlation-driven insulator-metal transition in near-ideal vanadium dioxide films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.116403
Gray, A. X., Jeong, J., Aetukuri, N. P., Granitzka, P., Chen, Z., Kukreja, R., Higley, D., Chase, T., Reid, A. H., Ohldag, H., Marcus, M. A., Scholl, A., Young, A. T., Doran, A., Jenkins, C. A., Shafer, P., Arenholz, E., Samant, M. G., Parkin, S. S. P., and Durr, H. A. Fri .
"Correlation-driven insulator-metal transition in near-ideal vanadium dioxide films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.116403. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1261081.
@article{osti_1261081,
title = {Correlation-driven insulator-metal transition in near-ideal vanadium dioxide films},
author = {Gray, A. X. and Jeong, J. and Aetukuri, N. P. and Granitzka, P. and Chen, Z. and Kukreja, R. and Higley, D. and Chase, T. and Reid, A. H. and Ohldag, H. and Marcus, M. A. and Scholl, A. and Young, A. T. and Doran, A. and Jenkins, C. A. and Shafer, P. and Arenholz, E. and Samant, M. G. and Parkin, S. S. P. and Durr, H. A.},
abstractNote = {We use polarization- and temperature-dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy, in combination with photoelectron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, and electronic transport measurements, to study the driving force behind the insulator-metal transition in VO2. We show that both the collapse of the insulating gap and the concomitant change in crystal symmetry in homogeneously strained single-crystalline VO2 films are preceded by the purely electronic softening of Coulomb correlations within V-V singlet dimers. This process starts 7 K (±0.3 K) below the transition temperature, as conventionally defined by electronic transport and x-ray diffraction measurements, and sets the energy scale for driving the near-room-temperature insulator-metal transition in this technologically promising material.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.116403},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 11,
volume = 116,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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