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Inhomogeneous Electronic State near the Insulator-to-Metal Transition in the Correlated Oxide VO2
- 발행일
- 200909
- 출처
- Physical Review B : Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, v.80 no.11, pp.115115-1-115115-7
- ISSN
- 1098-0121
- 출판사
- American Physical Society(APS)
- 초록
- We investigate the percolative insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) in films of the correlated material vanadium dioxide (VO2). Scattering-type scanning near-field infrared microscopy and atomic force microscopy were used to explore the relationship between the nucleation of metallic regions and the topography in insulating VO2. We demonstrate that the IMT begins within 10 nm from grain boundaries and crevices by using mean curvature and statistical analysis. We also observe coexistence of insulating and metallic domains in a single crystalline grain that points to intrinsic inhomogeneity in VO2 due to competing electronic phases in the IMT regime. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
- KSP 제안 키워드
- Atomic force microscope(AFM), Correlated material, Crystalline grain, Electronic state, Infrared microscopy, Mean curvature, Single-crystalline, Statistical Analysis, force microscopy, grain boundaries, insulator-to-metal transition