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Hole Carriers Doping Effect on the Metal–Insulator Transition of N‑Incorporated Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films
journal contribution
posted on 2014-06-19, 00:00 authored by Wenhua Zhang, Kai Wang, Lele Fan, Lingyun Liu, Panpan Guo, Chongwen Zou, Jiaou Wang, Haijie Qian, Kurash Ibrahim, Wensheng Yan, Faqiang Xu, Ziyu WuThe
coupling of doped charge carriers with the crystal lattice
is an efficient route to modulate the phase transition behavior of
VO2. In the current work, the N-incorporated VO2 samples are prepared through the low-energy N2+ ion sputtering of the crystalline VO2 films. The critical
temperatures (Tc) of the metal–insulator
transition (MIT) process are observed to decrease with a value of
∼18 °C for VO1.9N0.1 and VO1.87N0.13 samples. The effects of nitrogen incorporation
on the MIT depression have been revealed by the electronic structural
characterizations via the X-ray adsorption near-edge structure (XANES)
spectroscopy and photon electronic spectroscopy (SRPES). The implanted
nitrogen atoms are identified to coordinate with the V4+ ions at the substituent position of oxygen atoms. The p-type dopant
provides the hole carriers into the d∥ sub-bands,
resulting in the attenuation of the interaction within V–V
dimer and the narrowing of the energy band gap in M1 phase. Both aspects
unanimously facilitate the depression of the MIT temperature in N-incorporated
VO2.