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The single crystal VO2, exihibiting a first-order metal-insulator transition (MIT) at 67.2 degrees C and an insulator-insulator transition (IIT) at ~49.7 degrees C, is grown. From synchrotron-based x-ray microdiffraction analysis, the IIT…

Insulator-to-metal (MI) phase transition in vanadium dioxide (VO2) thin films with controlled lattice distortion was investigated by thermopower measurements. VO2 epitaxial films with different crystallographic orientations, grown on (0001)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-15 Takayoshi Katase , Kenji Endo , Hiromichi Ohta

The insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) of the simple binary compound of vanadium dioxide VO$_2$ at $\sim 340$ K has been puzzling since its discovery more than five decades ago. A wide variety of photon and electron probes have been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-18 Brian T. O'Callahan , Joanna M. Atkin , Andrew C. Jones , Jae Hyung Park , David Cobden , Markus B. Raschke

Electrostatic control of the metal-insulator transition (MIT) in an oxide semiconductor could potentially impact the emerging field of oxide electronics. Vanadium dioxide is of particular interest due to the fact that the MIT happens in the…

Vanadium dioxide(VO$_2$) is a paradigmatic example of a strongly correlated system that undergoes a metal-insulator transition at a structural phase transition. To date, this transition has necessitated significant post-hoc adjustments to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-20 Huihuo Zheng , Lucas K. Wagner

Vanadium sesquioxide, V2O3, is a prototypical metal-to-insulator system where, in temperature-dependent studies, the transition always coincides with a corundum-to-monoclinic structural transition. As a function of pressure, V2O3 follows…

Epitaxial SrTi1-xVxO3 thin films with thicknesses of ~16 nm were grown on (001)-oriented LSAT substrates using the pulsed electron-beam deposition technique. The transport study revealed a temperature driven metal-insulator transition (MIT)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Man Gu , Stuart A. Wolf , Jiwei Lu

Nine of the known vanadium oxides, VO$_{2-1/n}$ (n - a positive or negative integer) with n=2 - 6, 8, 9, $\infty$ and -6, undergo metal-insulator transitions accompanied by structural transitions, at various temperatures T$_{MIT}$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-09 B. Fisher , J. Genossar , G. M. Reisner

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) as a phase-change material controls the transferred heat during phase transition process between metal and insulator states. At temperature above 68C, the rutile structure VO2 keeps the heat out and increases the IR…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Golsa Mirbagheri , David T. Crouse , Chee-Keong Tan

The optical properties of a V4O7 single crystal have been investigated from the high temperature metallic phase down to the low temperature antiferromagnetic insulating one. The temperature dependent behavior of the optical conductivity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 I. Lo Vecchio , M. Autore , F. D'Apuzzo , F. Giorgianni , A. Perucchi , U. Schade , V. N. Andreev , V. A. Klimov , S. Lupi

Vanadium oxides are strongly correlated materials which display metal-insulator transitions as well as various structural and magnetic properties that depend heavily on oxygen stoichiometry. Therefore, it is crucial to precisely control…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-21 Min-Han Lee , Yoav Kalcheim , Javier del Valle , Ivan K. Schuller

Vanadium dioxide (VO$_{2}$) undergoes a first-order metal-insulator transition (MIT) upon cooling near room temperature, concomitant with structural change from rutile to monoclinic. Accurate characterization of lattice vibrations is vital…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-22 Yi Xia , Maria K. Y. Chan

We report the synthesis, crystal structure, physical properties, and first-principles calculations of a vanadium-based oxytelluride Rb$_{1-\delta}$V$_2$Te$_2$O ($\delta\approx0.2$). The crystal structure bears two-dimensional V$_2$O square…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-20 Abduweli Ablimit , Yun-Lei Sun , Hao Jiang , Si-Qi Wu , Ya-Bin Liu , Guang-Han Cao

The metal-insulator transition and unconventional metallic transport in vanadium dioxide (VO$_2$) are investigated with a combination of spectroscopic ellipsometry and reflectance measurements. The data indicates that electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 M. M. Qazilbash , K. S. Burch , D. Whisler , D. Shrekenhamer , B. G. Chae , H. T. Kim , D. N. Basov

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) exhibits an insulator-to-metal transition accompanied by a structural transition near room temperature. This transition can be triggered by an ultrafast laser pulse. Exotic transient states, such as a metallic state…

Controlling electronic population through chemical doping is one way to tip the balance between competing phases in materials with strong electronic correlations. Vanadium dioxide exhibits a first-order phase transition at around 338 K…

Measurements of conductance $G$ on short, wide, high-mobility Si-MOSFETs reveal both a two-dimensional metal-insulator transition (MIT) at moderate temperatures (1 $<~ T <$ 4~K) and mesoscopic fluctuations of the conductance at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 K. P. Li , Dragana Popovic , S. Washburn

We present the first comprehensive broadband optical spectroscopy data on two insulating phases of vanadium dioxide (VO2): monoclinic M2 and triclinic. The main result of our work is that the energy gap and the electronic structure are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-22 T. J. Huffman , C. Hendriks , E. J. Walter , Joonseok Yoon , Honglyoul Ju , R. Smith , G. L. Carr , H. Krakauer , M. M. Qazilbash

The physics of the metal-insulator transition (MIT) in vanadium dioxide remains a subject of intense interest. Because of the complicating effects of elastic strain on the phase transition, there is interest in comparatively strain-free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-08 Benjamin Huber-Rodriguez , Siu Yi Kwang , Will J. Hardy , Heng Ji , Chih-Wei Chen , Emilia Morosan , Douglas Natelson

The insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) in vanadium dioxide (VO2) has garnered extensive attention for its potential applications in ultrafast switches, neuronal network architectures, and storage technologies. However, a significant…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-07 Feng-Wu Guo , Wen-Hao Liu , Zhi Wang , Shu-Shen Li , Lin-Wang Wang , Jun-Wei Luo