Solution-processed phase-change VO2 metamaterials from colloidal vanadium oxide (VOx) nanocrystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 797-806

  Paik, Taejong ^a   Hong, Sung Hoon ^b,c   Gaulding, E Ashley ^b   Caglayan, Humeyra ^b   Gordon, Thomas R ^a   Engheta, Nader ^a,b   Kagan, Cherie R ^a,b   Murray, Christopher B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

nanoimprinting; phase transition; plasmonic; tungsten doping; vanadium dioxide

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL VANADIUM OXIDES; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; METAL-INSULATOR PHASE TRANSITION; NANO-IMPRINTING; PLASMONIC; SUBWAVELENGTH NANOSTRUCTURES; TUNGSTEN DOPING; VANADIUM DIOXIDE;

METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METAMATERIALS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; OXIDES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASMONS; RAPID THERMAL ANNEALING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; TUNGSTEN;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84893498781     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4054446     Document Type: Article

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