Unraveling metal-insulator transition mechanism of VO2 triggered by tungsten doping

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tan, Xiaogang ^a   Yao, Tao ^b   Long, Ran ^a   Sun, Zhihu ^b   Feng, Yajuan ^b   Cheng, Hao ^b   Yuan, Xun ^c   Zhang, Wenqing ^c   Liu, Qinghua ^b   Wu, Changzheng ^a   Xie, Yi ^a   Wei, Shiqiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; TUNGSTEN; VANADIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PHASE TRANSITION; SYNCHROTRON; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

METALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHASE TRANSITION; SYNCHROTRONS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; TUNGSTEN; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84873637440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00466     Document Type: Article

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