Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Tuning the hysteresis of a metal-insulator transition via lattice compatibility

  • Y. G. Liang,
  • S. Lee,
  • H. S. Yu,
  • H. R. Zhang,
  • Y. J. Liang,
  • P. Y. Zavalij,
  • X. Chen,
  • R. D. James,
  • L. A. Bendersky,
  • A. V. Davydov,
  • X. H. Zhang,
  • I. Takeuchi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17351-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The effect of the lattice degrees of freedom on the metal-insulator transition of VO2 remains a topic of debate. Here the authors show that the lattice compatibility of the high temperature tetragonal phase and the low-temperature monoclinic phase strongly influences the electronic transition, as manifested in the tunability of its hysteresis via chemical substitution.