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超薄外延V2O3薄膜中由限域诱导的等结构金属-绝缘体转变

Confinement-Induced Isosymmetric Metal-Insulator Transition in Ultrathin Epitaxial V2O3 Films

Simon Mellaerts, Claudio Bellani, Wei-Fan Hsu, Alberto Binetti, Koen Schouteden, Maria Recaman-Payo, Mariela Menghini, Juan Rubio Zuazo, Jesús López Sánchez, Ji… 展开作者

Simon Mellaerts, Claudio Bellani, Wei-Fan Hsu, Alberto Binetti, Koen Schouteden, Maria Recaman-Payo, Mariela Menghini, Juan Rubio Zuazo, Jesús López Sánchez, Jin Won Seo, Michel Houssa, Jean-Pierre Locquet

AI总结:

本研究通过氧气辅助分子束外延制备出单胞厚度的高质量外延超薄V2O3薄膜,证实维度限域可诱导等结构Mott-Hubbard型金属-绝缘体转变,且限域等效于面外应力,为调控关联氧化物晶格与电子性质提供了新途径。

摘要:

维度限域已被证明是调控复杂氧化物中竞争自由度的有效策略。本研究通过氧气辅助分子束外延实现了三方三氧化二钒(V2O3)的原子层生长,制备出一系列低至单胞厚度的高质量外延超薄V2O3薄膜,为研究限域下的本征电子关联提供了条件。通过电学和光学测量,我们证实这些超薄薄膜中存在维度限域诱导的金属-绝缘体转变。结合光电子能谱结果,我们揭示了该转变的Mott-Hubbard本质,发现准粒子权重发生突变消失。此外,我们证明维度限域可等效为一种有效的面外应力。这一发现凸显了限域结构中关联氧化物的结构组分作用,同时为分别利用外延应变和限域调控面内与面外晶格组分开辟了途径。

英文摘要:

Dimensional confinement has shown to be an effective strategy to tune competing degrees of freedom in complex oxides. Here, we achieved atomic layered growth of trigonal vanadium sesquioxide (V2O3) by means of oxygen-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. This led to a series of high-quality epitaxial ultrathin V2O3 films down to unit cell thickness, enabling the study of the intrinsic electron correlations upon confinement. By electrical and optical measurements, we demonstrate a dimensional confinement-induced metal-insulator transition in these ultrathin films. We shed light on the Mott-Hubbard nature of this transition, revealing an abrupt vanishing of the quasiparticle weight as demonstrated by photoemission spectroscopy. Furthermore, we prove that dimensional confinement acts as an effective out-of-plane stress. This highlights the structural component of correlated oxides in a confined architecture, while opening an avenue to control both in-plane and out-of-plane lattice components by epitaxial strain and confinement, respectively.

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