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Simultaneous Structural and Electronic Transitions in Epitaxial VO_{2}/TiO_{2}(001)
Galo J Paez1, Christopher N Singh1, Matthew J Wahila2
1Department of Physics, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York 13850, USA.
Abstract:
Recent reports have identified new metaphases of VO_{2} with strain and/or doping, suggesting the structural phase transition and the metal-to-insulator transition might be decoupled. Using epitaxially strained VO_{2}/TiO_{2} (001) thin films, which display a bulklike abrupt metal-to-insulator transition and rutile to monoclinic transition structural phase transition, we employ x-ray standing waves combined with hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to simultaneously measure the structural and electronic transitions. This x-ray standing waves study elegantly demonstrates the structural and electronic transitions occur concurrently within experimental limits (±1 K).
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