Anisotropic electronic state via spontaneous phase separation in strained vanadium dioxide films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Liu, M K ^a   Wagner, M ^a   Abreu, E ^b   Kittiwatanakul, S ^c   McLeod, A ^a   Fei, Z ^a   Goldflam, M ^a   Dai, S ^a   Fogler, M M ^a   Lu, J ^c   Wolf, S A ^c   Averitt, R D ^b   Basov, D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT STAGES; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; INSULATOR-TO-METAL TRANSITIONS; MACROSCOPIC PHENOMENA; METALLIC DOMAINS; NANO-SCALE PHASE SEPARATION; VANADIUM DIOXIDE; VANADIUM DIOXIDE FILM;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDE FILMS; OXIDE MINERALS; PHASE SEPARATION; SOLVENTS; VANADIUM;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 84884272832     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.096602     Document Type: Article

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