Imaging metal-like monoclinic phase stabilized by surface coordination effect in vanadium dioxide nanobeam

oleh: Zejun Li, Jiajing Wu, Zhenpeng Hu, Yue Lin, Qi Chen, Yuqiao Guo, Yuhua Liu, Yingcheng Zhao, Jing Peng, Wangsheng Chu, Changzheng Wu, Yi Xie

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2017-06-01

Deskripsi

Identifying intermediates during phase transitions is critical for our understanding of correlated materials, but difficult to achieve experimentally. Here, the authors report a surface coordination route to stabilize and directly image a phase-transition intermediate during the metal-insulator transition in vanadium dioxide.