Inhomogeneity of the ultrafast insulator-to-metal transition dynamics of VO2.

Abstract:

:The insulator-metal transition (IMT) of vanadium dioxide (VO2) has remained a long-standing challenge in correlated electron physics since its discovery five decades ago. Most interpretations of experimental observations have implicitly assumed a homogeneous material response. Here we reveal inhomogeneous behaviour of even individual VO2 microcrystals using pump-probe microscopy and nanoimaging. The timescales of the ultrafast IMT vary from 40±8 fs, that is, shorter than a suggested phonon bottleneck, to 200±20 fs, uncorrelated with crystal size, transition temperature and initial insulating structural phase, with average value similar to results from polycrystalline thin-film studies. In combination with the observed sensitive variations in the thermal nanodomain IMT behaviour, this suggests that the IMT is highly susceptible to local changes in, for example, doping, defects and strain. Our results suggest an electronic mechanism dominating the photoinduced IMT, but also highlight the difficulty to deduce microscopic mechanisms when the true intrinsic material response is yet unclear.

journal_name

Nat Commun

journal_title

Nature communications

authors

O'Callahan BT,Jones AC,Hyung Park J,Cobden DH,Atkin JM,Raschke MB

doi

10.1038/ncomms7849

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-04-21 00:00:00

pages

6849

issn

2041-1723

pii

ncomms7849

journal_volume

6

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