Nanoscale Engineering in VO2 Nanowires via Direct Electron Writing Process

Zhenhua Zhang1, Hua Guo2, Wenqiang Ding1

  • 1Institute of Microstructure and Properties of Advanced Materials, Beijing University of Technology , Beijing 100124, China.

Nano Letters
|January 13, 2017
PubMed
Summary

Focused electron beams can lower the metal-insulator transition (MIT) temperature of vanadium dioxide (VO2) to room temperature. This novel radiolysis-assisted MIT (R-MIT) process precisely engineers nanodomains with tunable electronic properties.

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