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PHYSICA B-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 369, Issue 1-4, Pages 76-80Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2005.07.032
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VO2 thin film; metal-insulator transition; switching pulse; switching speed; strong correlation effect
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An abrupt metal-insulator transition (MIT) was observed in VO2 thin films during the application of a switching voltage pulse to two-terminal devices. Any switching pulse over a threshold voltage for the MIT of 7.1 V enabled the device material to transform efficiently from an insulator to a metal. The characteristics of the transformation were analyzed by considering both the delay time and rise time of the measured current response. The extrapolated switching time of the MIT decreased down to 9 ns as the external load resistance decreased to zero. Observation of the intrinsic switching time of the MIT in the correlated oxide films is impossible because of the inhomogeneity of the metallic and the insulating states. This indicates that the intrinsic switching time is in the order of less than a nanosecond. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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