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| Pàgina inicial > Articles > Articles publicats > Metallic diluted dimerization in VO2 tweeds |
| Data: | 2021 |
| Resum: | The observation of electronic phase separation textures in vanadium dioxide, a prototypical electron-correlated oxide, has recently added new perspectives on the long standing debate about its metal-insulator transition and its applications. Yet, the lack of atomically resolved information on phases accompanying such complex patterns still hinders a comprehensive understanding of the transition and its implementation in practical devices. In this work, atomic resolution imaging and spectroscopy unveils the existence of ferroelastic tweed structures on ≈5 nm length scales, well below the resolution limit of currently used spectroscopic imaging techniques. Moreover, density functional theory calculations show that this pretransitional fine-scale tweed, which on average looks and behaves like the standard metallic rutile phase, is in fact weaved by semi-dimerized chains of vanadium in a new monoclinic phase that represents a structural bridge to the monoclinic insulating ground state. These observations provide a multiscale perspective for the interpretation of existing data, whereby phase coexistence and structural intermixing can occur all the way down to the atomic scale. |
| Ajuts: | European Commission 823717 Agencia Estatal de Investigación PGC2018-096955-B-C43 Agencia Estatal de Investigación RTI2018-098537-B-C21 Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad SEV-2017-0706 Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad MAT2017-82970-C2-R Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad MAT2016-77100-C2-1-P Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad SEV-2015-0496 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-1506 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-579 |
| Nota: | Altres ajuts: ICN2 was also supported by the CERCA programme (Generalitat de Catalunya). |
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| Llengua: | Anglès |
| Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar |
| Matèria: | VO2 ; Metal-insulator transitions ; Tweed textures ; Thin films ; Intermediate phase |
| Publicat a: | Advanced materials, Vol. 33, issue 9 (March 2021) , art. 2004374, ISSN 1521-4095 |
Postprint 36 p, 1.5 MB |