Measurement of a solid-state triple point at the metal-insulator transition in VO 2

Nature

Volumn 500, Issue 7463, 2013, Pages 431-434

  Park, Jae Hyung ^a   Coy, Jim M ^a   Serkan Kasirga, T ^a   Huang, Chunming ^a   Fei, Zaiyao ^a   Hunter, Scott ^a   Cobden, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANADIUM DERIVATIVE; VANADIUM DIOXIDE;

CRACKING; ELASTIC MODULUS; HYSTERESIS; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MANGANESE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; VANADIUM;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84883018021     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12425     Document Type: Article

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