Insulator-to-metal transition in vanadium sesquioxide: Does the Mott criterion work in this case?

Phase Transitions

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 185-194

  Pergament, Alexander ^a   Stefanovich, Genrikh ^a  

^a PETROZAVODSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

metal insulator transition; Mott criterion; transition metal oxides; vanadium sesquioxide

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC INSULATORS; HEAVILY DOPED; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INSULATOR-TO-METAL TRANSITIONS; LOW TEMPERATURES; METAL-INSULATOR PHASE TRANSITION; MOTT CRITERION; PARAMAGNETIC INSULATOR; TRANSITION METAL OXIDES; VANADIUM SESQUIOXIDE;

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; PARAMAGNETIC MATERIALS; PARAMAGNETISM; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; TRANSITION METALS; VANADIUM; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

EID: 84859199918     PISSN: 01411594     EISSN: 10290338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411594.2011.604271     Document Type: Article

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