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Metal-insulator transition effect on Graphene/VO2 heterostructure via temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy and resistivity measurement.
Document Type
Article
Source
Scientific Reports. 2/24/2024, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p1-9. 9p.
Subject
*METAL-insulator transitions
*RAMAN spectroscopy
*PHASE transitions
*TRANSITION metals
*THERMAL conductivity
*ION beams
Language
ISSN
2045-2322
Abstract
High-quality VO 2 films were fabricated on top of c-Al 2 O 3 substrates using Reactive Bias Target Ion Beam Deposition (RBTIBD) and the studies of graphene/VO 2 heterostructure were conducted. Graphene layers were placed on top of ∼ 50 and ∼ 100 nm VO 2 . The graphene layers were introduced using mechanical exfoliate and CVD graphene wet-transfer method to prevent the worsening crystallinity of VO 2 , to avoid the strain effect from lattice mismatch and to study how VO 2 can affect the graphene layer. Slight increases in graphene/VO 2 T MIT compared to pure VO 2 by ∼ 1.9 ∘ C and ∼ 3.8 ∘ C for CVD graphene on 100 and 50 nm VO 2 , respectively, were observed in temperature-dependent resistivity measurements. As the strain effect from lattice mismatch was minimized in our samples, the increase in T MIT may originate from a large difference in the thermal conductivity between graphene and VO 2 . Temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy measurements were also performed on all samples, and the G-peak splitting into two peaks, G + and G - , were observed on graphene/VO 2 (100 nm) samples. The G-peak splitting is a reversible process and may originates from in-plane asymmetric tensile strain applied under the graphene layer due to the VO 2 phase transition mechanism. The 2D-peak measurements also show large blue-shifts around 13 cm - 1 at room temperature and slightly red-shifts trend as temperature increases for 100 nm VO 2 samples. Other electronic interactions between graphene and VO 2 are expected as evidenced by 2D-peak characteristic observed in Raman measurements. These findings may provide a better understanding of graphene/VO 2 and introduce some new applications that utilize the controllable structural properties of graphene via the VO 2 phase transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]