Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Phase management in single-crystalline vanadium dioxide beams

  • Run Shi,
  • Yong Chen,
  • Xiangbin Cai,
  • Qing Lian,
  • Zhuoqiong Zhang,
  • Nan Shen,
  • Abbas Amini,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Chun Cheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24527-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Control of the phases associated with the metal-insulator transition in VO2 underpins its applications as a phase change material. Here, the authors report phase management by means of oxide inhibitor-assisted growth and present high-performance VO2 actuators based on asymmetric phase transition routes.