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Here we make use of vanadium dioxide (VO2) to design a bifunctional metasurface working at the same targeted frequency. With the increase of temperature, the functionality of the designed metasurface can switch from a multi-channel…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Shan Zhu , Yanyan Cao , Yangyang Fu , Xiaochao Li , Lei Gao , Huanyang Chen , Yadong Xu

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) has drawn significant attention for its near room temperature insulator to metal transition and associated structural phase transition. The underlying Physics behind the temperature induced insulator to metal and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-19 S. R. Sahu , S. S. Majid , A. Ahad , A. Tripathy , K. Dey , S. Pal , B. K. De , Wen-Pin Hsieh , R. Rawat , V. G. Sathe , D. K. Shukla

The ultrafast photoinduced insulator-metal transition in VO2 is studied at different temperatures and excitation fluences using multi-THz probe pulses. The spectrally resolved mid-infrared response allows us to trace separately the dynamics…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 A. Pashkin , C. Kübler , H. Ehrke , R. Lopez , A. Halabica , R. F. Haglund, , R. Huber , A. Leitenstorfer

The properties of thermal radiation exchange between hot and cold objects can be strongly modified if they interact in the near field where electromagnetic coupling occurs across gaps narrower than the dominant wavelength of thermal…

We designed and demonstrated a multi-spectral programmable perfect absorber that exploits two different phase-change materials. This programmability is possible by resonantly coupling two phase change materials, a Ge2Sb2Te5 layer to…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-15 Yun Meng , Dan Li , Chong Zhang , Yang Wang , Robert E. Simpson , Yi Long

Pristine vanadium dioxide (VO2), an insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) material, is grown via furnace oxidation followed by rapid thermal annealing with forming gas (5%H2/95%N2) which reduces surface over-oxides such as V2O5 formed during…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-25 Ken Araki , Vishwa Krishna Rajan , Liping Wang

In this work, we experimentally and theoretically explore voltage controlled oscillations occurring in micro-beams of vanadium dioxide. These oscillations are a result of the reversible insulator to metal phase transition in vanadium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Tom Driscoll , Jack Quinn , Giwan Seo , Yong-Wook Lee , Hyun-Tak Kim , David R. Smith , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Dimitri N. Basov

Electrically driven metal-insulator transition in vanadium dioxide (VO2) is of interest in emerging memory devices, neural computation, and high speed electronics. We report on the fabrication of out-of-plane VO2 metal-insulator-metal (MIM)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 You Zhou , Xiaonan Chen , Changhyun Ko , Zheng Yang , Chandra Mouli , Shriram Ramanathan

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…

Active control over the flow of heat in the near-field holds promise for nanoscale thermal management, with applications in refrigeration, thermophotovoltaics, and thermal circuitry. Analogously to its electronic counterpart, the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Georgia T. Papadakis , Bo Zhao , Siddharth Buddhiraju , Shanhui Fan

Reconfigurable optical systems are the object of continuing, intensive research activities, as they hold great promise for realizing a new generation of compact, miniaturized, and flexible optical devices. However, current reconfigurable…

Optical phase-change materials are highly promising for emerging applications such as tunable metasurfaces, reconfigurable photonic circuits, and non-von Neumann computing. However, these materials typically require both high melting…

The ability to control heat transport with electrical signals has been an outstanding challenge due to the lack of efficient electrothermal materials. Previous attempts have mainly concentrated on phase-change and layered materials and…

Thermochromic vanadium dioxide thin films have attracted much attention recently for constructing variable-emittance coatings upon its insulator-metal phase transition for dynamic thermal control. However, fabrication of high-quality…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-20 Vishwa Krishna Rajan , Jeremy Chao , Sydney Taylor , Liping Wang

Thermal management has become a promising field in recent years due to the limitation of energy resources and the global warming. An important topic in improving the efficiency of thermal energy utilization is how to control the flows of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Fangqi Chen , Xiaojie Liu , Yanpei Tian , Duanyang Wang , Yi Zheng

Use of electrode materials that show phase change behavior and hence drastic changes in electrochemical activity during operation, have not been explored for Li-ion batteries. Here we demonstrate the vanadium oxide (VO2) cathode that…

Quantum interference can produce a pivotal effective photon-photon interaction, enabling the exploration of various quantum information technologies that beyond the possibilities of classical physics. While such an effective interaction is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Chaojie Wang , Xutong Li , Xiuyi Ma , Yuning Zhang , Meng Wu , Weifang Lu , Yuanyuan Chen , Xiubao Sui , Lixiang Chen

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is a popular candidate for electronic and optical switching applications due to its well-known semiconductor-metal transition. Its study is notoriously challenging due to the interplay of long and short range elastic…

In this paper, a tunable metamaterial perfect absorber based on vanadium dioxide (VO2) is designed in the terahertz frequency range. The proposed structure is simulated by the numerical method of three-dimensional Finite Difference Time…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-30 Zahra Madadi

Phase change materials (PCMs) play a pivotal role in the development of advanced thermal devices due to their reversible phase transitions, which drastically modify their thermal and optical properties. In this study, we present an…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-07 Hexiang Zhang , Xuguang Zhang , Fangqi Chen , Mauro Antezza , Yi Zheng