Tunable insulator–metal transition in epitaxial VO<sub>2</sub> thin films <i>via</i> strain and defect engineering
Aditya Kamat, K. Gurukrishna, Rishow Kumar, Abhishek Mishra, Amit Verma, S. K. Tripathi, Ashish Garg, Shikhar Misra
Abstract
The correlation between T c , axial strain and oxygen vacancies is investigated for SMT, and DFT insights are reported for PLD grown VO 2 epilayers on c -Al 2 O 3 .
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Vanadium dioxideMaterials scienceMetal–insulator transitionEpitaxyStrain engineeringInsulator (electricity)VanadiumTransition metalThin filmStrain (injury)Composite materialMetalCondensed matter physicsNanotechnologyEngineering physicsMetallurgyChemistryEngineeringCatalysisSiliconInternal medicineBiochemistryMedicinePhysicsLayer (electronics)Transition Metal Oxide NanomaterialsGa2O3 and related materialsZnO doping and properties