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Atomic Layer Deposition of Vanadium Dioxide and a Temperature-dependent Optical Model
Published on: May 23, 2018
Plasmonic probe of the semiconductor to metal phase transition in vanadium dioxide
Davon W Ferrara1, Joyeeta Nag, Evan R MacQuarrie
1Department of Chemistry and Physics, Belmont University , 1900 Belmont Boulevard, Nashville, Tennessee 37212-3757, United States.
Abstract:
An array of 180 nm diameter gold nanoparticles (NPs) embedded in a thin vanadium dioxide film was used as a nanoscale probe of the thermochromic semiconductor-to-metal transition (SMT) in the VO2. The observed 30% reduction in plasmon dephasing time resulted from the interaction between the localized surface plasmon resonance of the NPs with the 1.4 eV electronic transitions in VO2. The NPs act as nanoantennas probing the SMT; homogeneous broadening of the gold plasmon resonance is observed at the temperatures where electron correlations are strongest in VO2.
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