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Vanadium dioxide with metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) that is triggered by heat, current or light is a promising material for modern active THz/mid-IR metasurfaces and all-optical big data processing systems. Multilayer VO2-based active…

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

We have made a detailed temperature-dependent photoemission study of VO_2/TiO_2(001) thin films, which show a metal-insulator transition at \sim 300 K. Clean surfaces were obtained by annealing the films in an oxygen atmosphere. Spectral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Okazaki , H. Wadati , A. Fujimori , M. Onoda , Y. Muraoka , Z. Hiroi

Vanadium sesquioxide (V2O3) is an archetypal Mott insulator in which the atomic positions and electron correlations change as temperature, pressure or doping are varied giving rise to different structural, magnetic or electronic phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-12 P. Homm , M. Menghini , J. W. Seo , S. Peters , J. -P. Locquet

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

We investigate the differences in the dynamics of the ultrafast photo-induced metal-insulator transition (MIT) of two VO$_2$ thin films deposited on different substrates, TiO$_2$ and Al$_2$O$_3$, and in particular the temperature dependence…

Implementation of neuromorphic hardware is a promising way to improve the computing efficiency and decrease the energy consumption of artificial neural networks. For this purpose, electronic elements emulating the behavior of synapses and…

The Insulator-Metal-Transition adjoined by a structural transition of VO2 is induced above room temperature (340 K) by heating or self-heating. A steep resistance-jump of up to five orders of magnitude occurs at this transition in high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-27 L. Patlagan , G. M. Reisner , B. Fisher

Infrared (IR) transmittance tunable metal-insulator conversion was demonstrated on glass substrate by using thermochromic vanadium dioxide (VO2) as the active layer in three-terminal thin-film-transistor-type device with water-infiltrated…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-19 Takayoshi Katase , Kenji Endo , Hiromichi Ohta

We apply ultrafast spectroscopy to establish a time-domain hierarchy between structural and electronic effects in a strongly-correlated electron system. We discuss the case of the model system VO2, a prototypical non-magnetic compound that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Cavalleri , Th. Dekorsy , H. H. Chong , J. C. Kieffer , R. W. Schoenlein

Vanadium dioxide, an archetypal correlated-electron material, undergoes an insulator-metal transition near room temperature that exhibits electron-correlation-driven and structurally-driven physics. Using ultrafast optical spectroscopy and…

Manipulating the strain induced poly-domains and phase transition in correlated oxide material are important for high performance devices fabrication. Though the electronic transport in the strained oxide film at macroscopic scales can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-06 Changlong Hu , Liang Li , Xiaolei Wen , Yuliang Chen , Bowen Li , Hui Ren , Shanguang Zhao , Chongwen Zou

Materials that undergo reversible metal-insulator transitions are obvious candidates for new generations of devices. For such potential to be realised, the underlying microscopic mechanisms of such transitions must be fully determined. In…

Nonequilibrium phase transitions driven by light pulses represent a rapidly developing field in condensed matter physics. As one of the archetypal strongly correlated materials, vanadium dioxide (VO2) undergoes a structural phase transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Lin Zhang , Utso Bhattacharya , Maria Recasens , Tobias Grass , Ravindra W. Chhajlany , Maciej Lewenstein , Allan S. Johnson

Many strongly correlated electronic materials, including high-temperature superconductors, colossal magnetoresistance and metal-insulator-transition (MIT) materials, are inhomogeneous on a microscopic scale as a result of domain structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Jiang Wei , Zenghui Wang , Wei Chen , David H. Cobden

We report the epitaxial growth and the electrical properties, especially the metal-to-insulator transition (MIT), of vanadium dioxide (VO2) thin films synthesized on LSAT (111) ([LaAlO3]0.3[Sr2AlTaO6]0.7) substrates by pulsed laser…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-11 Yang Liu , Shanyuan Niu , Thomas Orvis , Haimang Zhang , Han Wang , Jayakanth Ravichandran

We present results from an experimental study of the equilibrium and non-equilibrium transport properties of vanadium oxide nanobeams near the metal-insulator transition (MIT). Application of a large electric field in the insulating phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-28 Adam A. Stabile , Sujay K. Singh , Tai-lung Wu , Luisa Whittaker , Sarbajit Banerjee , G. Sambandamurthy

The metal-insulator transition (MIT) observed in vanadium dioxide (VO2) has been a topic of great research interest for past decades, with the underlying physics yet not fully understood due to the complex electron interactions and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-23 Atul Atul , Majid Ahmadi , Panagiotis Koutsogiannis , Heng Zhang , Bart J. Kooi

V2O3 thin films about 10 nm thick were grown on Al2O3 (0001) by pulsed laser deposition. The XRD analysis is in agreement with R-3c space group. Some of them exhibit the metal / insulator transition characteristic of V2O3 bulk material and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Autier-Laurent , B. Mercey , D. Chippaux , P. Limelette , Ch. Simon

Ruthenium metal and its oxide stand out for their exceptional catalytic activity, stability in Oxygen Evolution Reactions (OER) and electrical conductivity, making them indispensable in electronics and electrocatalysis. In this study,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-31 S. S. Nalawade , R. S. Kim , J. Mahl , S. Cherono , I. Chris-Okoro , V. Craciun , J. Yan , E. Crumlin , D. Kumar , S. Aravamudhan