Symmetry breaking and geometric confinement in VO2: Results from a three-dimensional infrared nano-imaging

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Mengkun ^a   Wagner, Martin ^a   Zhang, Jingdi ^b   McLeod, Alexander ^a   Kittiwatanakul, Salinporn ^c   Fei, Zhe ^a   Abreu, Elsa ^b   Goldflam, Michael ^a   Sternbach, Aaron J ^a   Dai, Siyuan ^a   West, Kevin G ^c   Lu, Jiwei ^c   Wolf, Stuart A ^c   Averitt, Richard D ^a,b   Basov, D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITAXIAL GROWTH; OXIDE MINERALS; SUBSTRATES;

EPITAXIAL STRAIN; GEOMETRIC CONFINEMENT; MIRROR SYMMETRY BREAKING; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITION; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; TRANSITION-METAL OXIDES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84897413714     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4869558     Document Type: Article

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