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Title: Role of microstructures on the M1-M2 phase transition in epitaxial VO2 thin films

Abstract

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) with its unique sharp resistivity change at the metal-insulator transition (MIT) has been extensively considered for the near-future terahertz/infrared devices and energy harvesting systems. Controlling the epitaxial quality and microstructures of vanadium dioxide thin films and understanding the metal-insulator transition behaviors are therefore critical to novel device development. The metal-insulator transition behaviors of the epitaxial vanadium dioxide thin films deposited on Al2O3 (0001) substrates were systematically studied by characterizing the temperature dependency of both Raman spectrum and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Our findings on the correlation between the nucleation dynamics of intermediate monoclinic (M2) phase with microstructures will open a new avenue for the design and integration of advanced heterostructures with controllable multifunctionalities for sensing and imaging system applications.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [3];  [4];  [1]
  1. Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu (China). State Key Lab. of Electronic Thin films and Integrated Devices
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). The Inst. of Physics
  3. Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, TX (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  4. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Center for Integrated nanotechnologies
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1624709
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Science & Technology - Other Topics; PHASE TRANSITIONS AND CRITICAL PHENOMENA; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES

Citation Formats

Ji, Yanda, Zhang, Yin, Gao, Min, Yuan, Zhen, Xia, Yudong, Jin, Changqing, Tao, Bowan, Chen, Chonglin, Jia, Quanxi, and Lin, Yuan. Role of microstructures on the M1-M2 phase transition in epitaxial VO2 thin films. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1038/srep04854.
Ji, Yanda, Zhang, Yin, Gao, Min, Yuan, Zhen, Xia, Yudong, Jin, Changqing, Tao, Bowan, Chen, Chonglin, Jia, Quanxi, & Lin, Yuan. Role of microstructures on the M1-M2 phase transition in epitaxial VO2 thin films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep04854
Ji, Yanda, Zhang, Yin, Gao, Min, Yuan, Zhen, Xia, Yudong, Jin, Changqing, Tao, Bowan, Chen, Chonglin, Jia, Quanxi, and Lin, Yuan. Tue . "Role of microstructures on the M1-M2 phase transition in epitaxial VO2 thin films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep04854. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1624709.
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title = {Role of microstructures on the M1-M2 phase transition in epitaxial VO2 thin films},
author = {Ji, Yanda and Zhang, Yin and Gao, Min and Yuan, Zhen and Xia, Yudong and Jin, Changqing and Tao, Bowan and Chen, Chonglin and Jia, Quanxi and Lin, Yuan},
abstractNote = {Vanadium dioxide (VO2) with its unique sharp resistivity change at the metal-insulator transition (MIT) has been extensively considered for the near-future terahertz/infrared devices and energy harvesting systems. Controlling the epitaxial quality and microstructures of vanadium dioxide thin films and understanding the metal-insulator transition behaviors are therefore critical to novel device development. The metal-insulator transition behaviors of the epitaxial vanadium dioxide thin films deposited on Al2O3 (0001) substrates were systematically studied by characterizing the temperature dependency of both Raman spectrum and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Our findings on the correlation between the nucleation dynamics of intermediate monoclinic (M2) phase with microstructures will open a new avenue for the design and integration of advanced heterostructures with controllable multifunctionalities for sensing and imaging system applications.},
doi = {10.1038/srep04854},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 4,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Tue May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}

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