ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (MOE) and Technical Center for Multifunctional Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy (Shanghai), Department of Electronic Engineering , East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241 , China.
Published: September 2018
Vanadium dioxide (VO) with a metal-insulator transition (MIT) has been supposed as a candidate for optoelectronic devices. However, the MIT temperature ( T) above room temperature limits its application scope. Here, high-quality VW O films have been prepared by pulsed laser deposition. On the basis of temperature-dependent transmittance and Raman spectra, it was found that T increases from 241 to 279 K, when increasing the doping concentration in the range of 0.16 ≤ x ≤ 0.20. The interband electronic transitions and orbital structures of VW O films have been investigated via fitting transmittance spectra. Moreover, with the aid of first-principles calculations, an effective orbital theory has been proposed to explain the unique phenomenon. When the W doping concentration increases, the π* and d orbitals shift toward the π orbital. Meanwhile, the energy gap between the π* and d orbitals decreases at the insulator state. It indicates that the bandwidth is narrowed, which impedes MIT. In addition, the overlap of the π* and d orbitals increases at the metal state, and more doping electrons occupy the π* orbital induced by increasing W doping concentration. It manifests that the Mott insulating state becomes more stable, which further improves T. The present work provides a feasible approach to tune T via orbital variation and can be helpful in developing the potential VO-based optoelectronic devices.
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